单词 | champagne fountain |
释义 | champagne fountainn. 1. A fountain which spouts champagne; (in later use) esp. a portable fountain with a tiered design that is used to serve champagne at parties and celebrations. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > utensils for wine basketc950 faucet?a1400 claretc1440 tilter1630 simpulum1672 worm1681 valentia1688 screw1697 bottle screw1699 corkscrew1720 cyathus1768 toddy ladle1807 valinch1823 champagne fountain1835 wine-wagon1848 beer-tray1862 beer-pull1864 oenochoe1871 bottle opener1872 kovsh1884 toddy-lifter1894 set-up1930 beer-mat1939 1835 Southern Recorder (Milledgeville, Georgia) 7 July We observed in Park Row, a champagne fountain... We found..gentlemen reclining at full length.., extending their glasses to be replenished at the fountain with pure Champagne. 1948 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 8 Dec. 12 b/2 Surely you've heard about wild parties in the movie studios—revels on the set, champagne fountains, dancing girls with few, if any, clothes, and all that? 2011 E. M. Harbison Always Something there to remind Me xviii. 251 Mr. and Mrs. Adam Brettman were official, the reception was in full swing, and the new Lisa Brettman had complained that the champagne in the champagne fountain was flat. 2. A group of champagne glasses arranged in the form of a pyramid, the uppermost glass of which is filled to overflowing, causing the champagne to cascade by succession into the glasses in the tiers below. ΚΠ 1973 N. McWhirter & R. McWhirter Guinness Bk. Rec. (ed. 20) xi. 224/1 Champagne Fountain. The tallest successfully filled column of champagne glasses is one 10 feet high, filled from the top by Giuseppi Massari. 2018 S. Rindell Eagle & Crane (2019) xliii. 286 Onlookers cheered as golden suds slipped down the champagne fountain and the pyramid of glasses began to fill up, brimming over and filling each successive tier below. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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