单词 | sunday supper |
释义 | > as lemmasSunday supper Sunday supper n. a meal eaten on Sunday evening, typically either a large traditional meal, or a light one when the traditional meal is eaten earlier in the day; cf. Sunday dinner n., Sunday lunch n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper supperc1300 collationc1305 mid-dinnera1500 Sunday suppera1580 supper1598 evening meal1620 late dinner1649 ordinary suppera1661 petit souper1751 souper1787 ball supper1794 tray supper1825 kitchen supper1837 bump supper1845 evenmeat1848 tea-dinner1862 luncheon1903 a1580 G. Harvey Story Mercy Harvey in Wks. (1885) III. 75 A Sundaie supper at Mr. S. 1711 J. Swift Let. 9 Oct. in Wks. (1768) II. 50 I hate the thoughts of Saturday and Sunday suppers with lord treasurer. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 577 How I did think of your Sunday Suppers—their light uncumbrous Simplicity, the heartiness of manner, the literary Christianness of Conversation. 1856 Times 26 Aug. 9/3 Lord Cockburn..dwells with especially tender unction upon the Sunday suppers of his friend Sir Henry Moncrieff. 1902 G. H. Ellwanger Pleasures of Table 267 It will thus be manifest that the Sunday-afternoon dinner and late Sunday supper become the greatest of all invitations to gastric disorders. 1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) vi. 112 He still has Sunday supper sitting in his mother's padded breakfast nook, the unvarying roasted meat and potatoes and Brussels sprouts in their blue-and-white serving dish. < as lemmas |
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