| 释义 |
suppering, vbl. n.|ˈsʌpərɪŋ|
[f. supper v. + -ing1.]
The providing or eating of supper; the entertainment of guests at supper.
1740Richardson Pamela II. 62 The Breakfasting-time, the Preparations for Dinner,..and the Supperings, will fill up a great Part of the Day. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs I. 173 Such visiting and dressing, and dinnering, and suppering. 1827Hood Lycus 25 Once, at my suppering, I pluck'd in the dusk An apple.
b. The evening feeding of cattle, etc.; also with up. Also concr. the food given.
c1818Clare Summer Evening 86 Far and near, the motley group Anxious claim their suppering-up. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 683 In Scotland..before the introduction of naked fallows and turnips, it [Cuicus arvensis] formed the suppering of housed cattle, during five or six weeks of every summer. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 243 Kit must be back at Loch Spellanderie for the suppering of the horses. |