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Washington U.S.|ˈwɒʃɪŋtən|
[Name of George Washington (1732–99), first president of the United States of America.]
1. Washington lily: a tall lily, Lilium washingtonianum, that grows in the mountains of the Pacific Coast of N. America and bears white flowers.
[1859A. Kellogg in Hesperian (San Francisco) III. 340 (caption) Lady Washington lily. 1863Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci. II. 13 Dr. Kellogg also exhibited a drawing and growing specimens of a new species of lily from the Sierra Nevada... L. washingtonianum (Kellogg) Lady Washington Lily... Stem erect, glabrous, three to four feet high, two or more flowers on peduncles four to five inches long.] 1869J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra (1911) 43 Here and there a Washington lily may be seen nodding above its even surface. 1937[see Shasta lily s.v. Shasta a. 2].
2. Washington pie: † (a) some kind of pie; (b) a light cake made of sponge layers with a jam or jelly († or cream) filling.
1878N. A. Donnelley Lakeside Cook Bk. 33/1 Washington pie. 1904F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. xxxi. 421 Mix and bake Cream Pie. Put raspberry jam or jelly between layers. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide i. 10 Won't you have somethin' to eat? One of them turnovers or some Washington pie, or somethin', hey? 1968E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xv. 231 The taste of the Christmas ribbon candy, and the fleeting taste of the good-luck thimble and the birthday wedge of Washington pie.
Add:3. The name of the city of Washington, D.C., capital of the United States and seat of the federal government, used to designate the U.S. government or any of its departments.
a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 255, I have an Englishman wants to go into the United States: Washington has given him a visa. 1948A. Cooke in Manchester Guardian Weekly 26 Feb. 4/2 Washington has evidently decided to throw the ball to the Soviet Union. 1963P. Fleming Kolchak iv. 51 Washington, though unaware of this..rejected the idea on a point of principle. 1973Times 11 Jan. 10/6 There never was much ‘reality’ about Washington's presence in Vietnam from the moment when the first quiet Americans moved in. 1991Harper's Mag. Jan. 75/1 Ever since the fateful day when..the emir of Kuwait and his extended family were unfeelingly translated from yacht people to boat people, Washington has been waffling about the rights of the Kuwaiti..victims.
Hence Washingtoˈnologist n. [parallel to Kremlinologist n. s.v. Kremlin n.], a person who studies or is an expert in the workings of the U.S. government, etc.
1968Guardian 2 Apr. 11/1 The ‘Washingtonologists’ in Moscow must be getting their files out to see what is in it for the Soviet Union—and for the world. 1976Guardian Weekly 19 Sept. 8/3 This impression is strengthened by some of the questions which the Kremlin's own Washingtonologists have lately been asking. 1980N.Y. Times 13 Nov. a35/3 All four struggles going on in Washington now are between pragmatism and principle. Washingtonologists predict pragmatism will win struggles {hash}2 and {hash}4, and principle will win {hash}1 and {hash}3. |