α. 1800s– wiederkom, 1900s– wiederkomm.
β. 1800s vidrecom, 1800s vidrecome.
Also with capital initial.
单词 | wiederkom |
释义 | wiederkomn.α. 1800s– wiederkom, 1900s– wiederkomm. β. 1800s vidrecom, 1800s vidrecome. Also with capital initial. Chiefly (and now only) in historical contexts. Now rare. A tall, cylindrical German drinking glass of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, typically made of coloured glass or painted with designs in enamel. Occasionally also (cf. quot. 1967): the contents of a wiederkom. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass > decorated or ornamented wiederkom1825 passglas1897 twist1897 colour twist1965 1825 J. Busby Treat. Culture Vine i. vi. 214 The wine is said to be a hundred years old. Strangers are, with much ceremony, made to taste it, in a superb cup called wiederkom. 1897 A. Hartshorne Old Eng. Glasses xv. 82 A glass called a ‘Wiederkom’ was one which was filled, passed round the table..and ‘came again’ empty. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Blue Flowers (1985) ix. 95 They pour him out wiederkom after wiederkom. 1998 R. Ashton tr. C. Mendès in A. Hustvedt Decadent Reader 829 She took from Valentine Berthier's hands a glass of Bohème, as large as a wiederkom, overflowing with froth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1825 |
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