释义 |
Marmande, n.|ˈmɑːmɒnd| Also marmande, Marmont. [The name of Marmande, a town in Lot-et-Garonne, south-west France.] attrib. Denoting a large firm variety of tomato.
1967I. Diqs Bedouin Boyhood xviii. 170 Some of my students started small projects—rabbit-breeding for example, or planting the newly introduced Marmont tomato. 1978J. Grigson Vegetable Bk. 381 The tomatoes must be the huge craggy kind, Marmande or Eshkol are sometimes to be bought in the shops. 1986G. Slovo Death by Analysis viii. 136, I was just finishing off the marmande tomato I'd had to accompany my cheese when the doorbell rang. 1991Shepherd's Garden Seeds Catal. 62/1 A vigorous..variety, Marmande bears a very prolific crop of large, firm and meaty lobed tomatoes. |