单词 | brown tommy |
释义 | > as lemmasBrown Tommy ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Tommy Brown Tommy; ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks. a1830 R. B. James in E. Fraser Napoleon the Gaoler (1914) 130 We were obliged to stick to our Brown Tommy. 1890 T. S. Cooper My Life I. i. 3 As for fine wheaten bread, I never saw that, and even ‘Brown Tommie’, as we called it, was at 1s. 8d. a loaf. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. June 367/1 The regulation bun of eight, ten, or twelve ounces of brown ‘tommy’ is handed in. < as lemmas |
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