| 单词 | the pleasures of the table |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe pleasures of the table P7. the pleasures of the table [after French les plaisirs de la table (1656 or earlier)] : good food and drink, considered as a source of enjoyment. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > food and drink > as source of enjoyment the pleasures of the table1709 1644 Devotions Helpe Christian People 28 Give me such a gust and holy relish in this Divine nutriment, that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee..and let my soule be..inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table.] 1709 New Characters Court Great Brit. 9 in tr. J. de La Bruyère Characters (ed. 5) He relishes the Pleasures of the Table without Debauching. 1738 C. Forman tr. L. R. de Saint-Jory Adventures of Malouka 8 He resolved to seek Comfort in the Pleasures of the Table, and the enchanting Deliriums of Wine. 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague IV. ccxi. 146 I love the pleasures of the table. 1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders III. 255 Richard..despised the inclination of the German for the pleasures of the table. 1874 J. L. Motley John of Barneveld I. i. 28 He had small love for the pleasures of the table. 1942 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Social Hist. xiii. 408 Eighteenth Century Englishmen were much addicted to the pleasures of the table. 2000 Red Herring May 64/2 Slow Food is..a return to traditional, regional pleasures of the table, enjoyed slowly with family and friends. < as lemmas |
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