释义 |
‖ sucrier|sykrie| [Fr.] A sugar-bowl, usu. made of porcelain and with a cover.
1869C. Schreiber Jrnl. 9 Oct. (1911) I. 50 A Bow (sprigged) sucrier with cover and acorn top. 1904E. Dillon Porcelain p. xxi, Sèvres porcelain. Two small sucriers..Gros bleu and green ground, with birds on branches painted in white reserves. 1960Times 18 June 11/2 But odd pieces—sucriers, cup and saucers, teapots—can be obtained at moderate cost. 1975Country Life 4 Dec. (Suppl.) 43/1 Chelsea-Derby sucrier, c. 1770.
Add:2. Locally, with pronunc. |sikie|. [Prob. Trinidadian Fr. creole.] = honey banana s.v. honey n. 7 b.
1911Phytopathol. I. 45 About twenty years ago,..an epidemic practically wiped out this variety [sc. the ‘moko’ fig] so that now it is but rarely met with, and its place in cacao cultivations has been taken by the ‘sucrier’ or lady finger banana. 1938Jrnl. Jamaica Agric. Soc. XLII. 464 Honey,..this variety is slender and grows to about the same height as the Apple but it is immune to Panama Disease. It is also known by the names Sucrier and Lady's Finger. 1961C. W. Wardlaw Banana Dis. vi. 166 Two leaves had withered in the inoculated sucker of the Sucrier. 1986Banana Bull. May/June 26/1 Sucrier, dessert cultivar, popular sweet variety of south east Asia. |