| 单词 | top dish |
| 释义 | > as lemmastop dish top dish n. now historical a dish (typically consisting of meat or fish) which is placed at the top end of a table, and from which the food is cut and offered to all the diners; cf. bottom dish n. ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 31 Either of these will do for a Top Dish of a First Course, or Bottom Dishes at a Second Course. 1809 J. Caird Compl. Confectioner iii. vi. 324 A large cod done thus is a handsome top dish for dinner. 2004 K. E. Harbury Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty 53 According to Jane Carson the eighteenth-century dinner table was largely modeled after the French mode, whereby the hostess carved the ‘top dish’ while the host took responsibility for the ‘bottom dish’. < as lemmas |
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