单词 | white baker |
释义 | white bakern. 1. A baker of white bread. Cf. brown baker n. at brown adj. Compounds 2. Now historical.The Worshipful Company of Bakers is one of the livery companies of the City of London and received its first charter in 1486. A guild or fraternity of bakers existed since at least the 12th cent. and by the 14th cent. had jurisdiction over bakers of brown and white bread. The bakers of brown bread or brown bakers had a separate corporate identity for brief periods in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > genus Muscicapa (fly-catcher) > muscicapa striata white baker1441 bee-bird1771 rafter1802 rafter-bird1817 wall-plat1841 wall-bird1848 post bird1849 spider-catcher1854 cherry-chopper1888 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > baker of bread bakerOE moulder1290 bread-wrighta1325 kneaderc1440 white baker1441 paster?a1475 brown baker1528 dough kneader1605 bread man1830 brakesman1845 1441 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 258 (MED) White bakers shall bake no hors brede..broune bakers shall bake whete brede as it comyth grounde fro the mylle withoute ony bultyng of the same. 1568 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 325 No baker, be he white baker or browne baker. 1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 624 The Company of White-Bakers..were a Company of this City in the first yeere of Edward the second. 1698 L. Meriton Pecuniæ obediunt Omnia (new ed.) lxii. 40 Barber-Surgeons, Armourers, White-Bakers, With Wax and Talow-Chandlers, their partakers. 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry I. sig. nnnn Originally there were two distinct Companies of Bakers in London, viz. the White and the Brown Bakers. The Company at present is styled the Company of White Bakers; and was incorporated 1 Edw. II. 1307. 1820 London Lit. Gaz. 21 Oct. 696/3 At a neighbouring house, an idle mob is assembled to see a ‘white baker’ carted from his door for making adulterated bread. 1890 J. Gurnhill Monogr. Gainsborough Parish Reg. vi. 54 Perhaps it would be as difficult to find a brown-baker now, as it would have been to find a white-baker then. 1902 J. F. Wadmore Acct. Worshipful Company of Skinners 268 Lot No. 12 fell to the Skinners, the ‘inferior’ Companies associated with them being the Stationers, the Whitebakers, and the Girdlers. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vii. 242 In London the white bakers and the brown or tourte bakers for a long time had separate guilds. 2006 D. Purkiss Eng. Civil War xiv. 268 He was a whitebaker, a baker of bread for the rich. 2. British regional. The spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata, which has whitish underparts. rare. ΚΠ 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. White-baker, vide Flycatcher—spotted. 1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 White Baker, the Spotted Flycatcher. 1905 A. R. Forbes Gaelic Names Beasts 274 Flycatcher..Wall bird, wall-plat, white baker, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1441 |
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