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单词 postprandial
释义 postprandial, a.|-ˈprændɪəl|
[f. post- B. 1 b + L. prandi-um luncheon, meal + -al1: cf. prandial.]
Done, made, taken, happening, etc. after dinner; after-dinner. (Chiefly humorous.)
1820Coleridge Lett., to J. H. Green (1895) 704 The day including prandial and post-prandial.1846Life J. Guthrie in Lives Henderson & G. 151 This plan, most likely of post⁓prandial origin, was actually attempted.1864Reader 9 July 49 A capital postprandial speaker.1890N. Moore in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXI. 31/2 Men far advanced in post⁓prandial potations.Mod. Post-prandial oratory.
Hence postˈprandially adv., after dinner.
1851H. D. Wolff Pict. Span. Life (1853) 35 The crowd that postprandially collects thither.
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