单词 | white sour |
释义 | white sourn. 1. A variety of cider apple with a pale yellowish-green skin, grown especially in Devon. In later use also Devonshire white sour. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cider apples ruddock1600 redding1611 stocking-apple1629 Harvey1640 genet-moyle1655 moil1657 winter queening1657 must1662 redstreak1662 redstreak apple1664 eleot1676 peeling1676 Sodom apple1676 stire1699 woodcock1700 underleaf1707 coccagee1727 white sour1727 sheepnose1817 Tom Putt1831 cider-apple1875 Slack-ma-girdle1885 sheep's nose1936 1727 H. Stafford in B. Langley Pomona (1729) 141 I am now to let you know as much I my self do of its only Rival the Whitsour, (or Whitesour, spell it as you please). 1799 A. Crocker Art Making & Managing Cyder 8 White-Sour. Small, of a yellow ground lightly tinged towards the nose with a light brown. 1826 Catal. Fruits (Hort. Soc. London) 141 Devonshire White Sour. 1842 Gardener's Mag. Nov. 542 The best apple for cider is called the white-sour. 1909 M. H. R. Curtler Short Hist. Eng. Agric. xv. 187 The best cider apple in the county then was the White-sour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [noun] > bleaching > bleaching process > specific souring1756 grey souring1843 grey sour1875 white sour1875 madder bleach1891 kiering1922 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 817/1 White Sour.—After lying in the chemick the goods are again washed and squeezed, and afterwards soured..with sulphuric acid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1727 |
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