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Hovis|ˈhəʊvɪs|
The registered trade mark of a brand of flour; also, a loaf of brown bread made from this flour. Also attrib.
1890Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Nov. 1137/2 Hovis. Flour and Articles of Food, made partly or wholly of Flour, Richard Smith, Corn Flour Mills, Macclesfield, Cheshire. 1895G. B. Shaw Let. 23 Dec. (1965) 584 Eat stewed fruit and hovis. 1898Christian World 3 Feb. 4/5 Our representative was told that ‘Hovis’ was the concoction of a Cambridge undergraduate, being compounded of ‘hominis’ and ‘vis,’ ‘strength of man’. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 510/3 Hovis Food―No. 1, for infants...No. 2, for children and invalids. 1930S. Beckett Whoroscope 3 So we drink Him and eat Him And the watery Beaune and the stale cubes of Hovis. 1932Dylan Thomas Let. (1966) 5 Give me a half-pint, a Hovis. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 10 He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and complexion of a Hovis loaf. 1967A. Laski Seven Other Years iii. 32 She liked the shapes of bread, and the different colours..some, Hovises and wholemeals, dark and interesting. |