| 单词 | citron table |
| 释义 | > as lemmascitron table (b) In sense A. 3, usually as citron table. Chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xv. 395 The Mores..are stored with abundance of Citron trees: from whence commeth that excessive expense and superfluitie about Citron tables made thereof. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 115 Gorgeous feasts On Cittron tables or Atlantic stone. View more context for this quotation 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 26 The citron Board, the Bowl emboss'd with Gems. 1861 W. Thornbury Ice Bound I. 125 With a single blow of his axe he clove in two a massy citron table which stood near. 1912 H. MacGrath Place of Honeymoons xiii. 244 Abbey, I wouldn't climb those stairs for a bottle of Horace's Falernian, served on Seneca's famous citron table. 1998 C. Connors Petronius Poet iv. 109 Because citron tables were circular, the orbis of the table (signalled by circum) is the symbolic equivalent of the orbis of the world. < as lemmas |
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