请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 choca
释义

chocan.

Forms: 1800s cho'ca, 1800s cho-ca, 1800s–1900s choca.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cho'ca.
Etymology: < French cho'ca (1847) < cho- (in chocolat chocolate n.) + ca- (in café coffee: see café n. and compare coffee n.).Submitted for a French patent under this name by A. E. Lemolt in 1847; the patent was granted in 1848.
Obsolete.
Chiefly in French contexts: a hot drink consisting of a mixture of coffee, chocolate, and milk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun] > cocoa and coffee
choca1849
mocha1977
1849 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife 412 The characteristic Voltaire pouring a cup of Cho-Ca to Frederic the Great in his tent on the field of Potsdam.
1854 J. Doran Table Traits I. 71 The favourite beverage of Voltaire, at the Café Procope, was ‘choca’—a mixture of coffee (with milk) and chocolate... I do not know a draught which so perfectly soothes and revives as hot, well-frothed ‘choca’.
1893 Coffee Public-House News 1 June 88/2 Voltaire's favourite beverage was choca—a mixture of coffee (with milk) and chocolate. Napoleon, it is said, was fond of this mixture.
1910 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 4/6 It was one of the minor troubles of Napoleon III. when an exile in England that he could not obtain his beloved ‘Choca’ here to his liking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
<
n.1849
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/1 6:45:25