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单词 town cress
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town cressn.

Brit. /ˈtaʊn krɛs/, U.S. /ˈtaʊn ˌkrɛs/
Forms:

α. see town n. and cress n.

β. late Middle English tounce carse.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: town n., cress n.
Etymology: In α. forms < town n. (probably in sense ‘garden’: see town n. 1a and compare discussion at that entry) + cress n. In β. forms < the genitive of town n. + cress n. Compare Anglo-Norman cressun du jardin (compare quot. c1300). Compare also Dutch tuinkers (1567).Compare Old English tūnmelde orache, probably garden orache, Atriplex hortensis ( < town n. + Old English melde : see miles n.1).
Now rare.
Garden cress, Lepidium sativum. Formerly also in plural with singular agreement.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > cress
cressa700
town cresseOE
nasturtiumOE
watercressa1400
cresson1657
tongue-grass1726
poor man's pepper1738
mustard and cress1808
fen-cress1818
Para cress1857
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > cress
cressa700
town cresseOE
fen-cressc1000
well-cressOE
nasturtiumOE
watercressc1300
garth-cress?14..
watercress?a1450
women's meadwort?a1450
garden cressa1500
peppergrass?a1500
nosewort1563
nosesmart1589
water-rocket1605
nosewort1608
well grassa1646
cresson1657
water grass1708
tongue-grass1726
poor man's pepper1738
marsh-rocket1739
passerage1879
eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 36 Nasturcium, tuuncressa.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. i. 22 Genim tuncersan sio þe self weaxeð & mon ne sæwð.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 76 Narstutium, tunkerse.
a1300 Trilingual Gloss. (Sloane) in Eng. Stud. (1989) 70 291 Nasturacium, gall. kersun, angl. tunkerse.
c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) 226 Donez li treis feiz en treis jors le peis de un dener de semence de cressun du jardyn, i. tuncars.
c1400 in A. Zettersten Virtue Herbs in Loscombe MS (1967) 25 Alle of þe herbys o Ierlonde Here þow schalt ham knowe eueri onde..Mintys, sawery, tuncarsse [a1500 Treat. Gardening tuncarse] & spinage.
a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 78 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 115 Salat. Take persel, sawge, [grene] garlec, chibolles, oynouns, leek, borage, myntes, porrettes, fenel, and toun cressis.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 42 Take þerto Town cresses, and cresses þat growene in flode.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helth (new ed.) 90 Let him eate hastyly small radysshe rootes, townkersis,..or purslane.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxiv. 96 The Swines Cresses..is hoate and dry, like to garden or towne Cressis.
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. i. 35 If a mans fundament fall downe through some cold taken or other cause, let it be fourthwith put vp againe: Then take the powder of Town cresses dried, and strow it gently vpon the fundament.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 158 Towne-Cresses, or as the vulgar sort doe pronounce, Town-karsse, is more byting in taste then Rocket.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 222 Jack by the hedge... Country men do boil it and eat it in stead of Garlick, being no less strengthened and nourished by it then the Persian children were with Town-cresses.
1727 B. Langley New Princ. Gardening vii. i. 32 Garden-cresses, Nasturtium Hortense, or Town-cresses, has small narrow ragged Leaves, mordicant and hot in Taste.
1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants II. 694 Garden cress. Town cress. Garden karsse.
1937 H. Leyel Herbal Delights v. 278 The Garden Cress, or Town Cress, has been grown in England for three hundred years and is rarely grown apart from the Mustard with which it is always associated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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