| 单词 | cocoa house |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocoa house cocoa house n. (a) a place where cocoa (sense A. 3a) and other refreshments are served; cf. Compounds 2 and chocolate house n. (now historical); (b) (chiefly Caribbean) a building or other structure used for drying cocoa beans.In quot. 1706 with reference to the Cocoa Tree, the name of a chocolate house in Pall Mall, London, which served chocolate drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > chocolate-house chocolate house1691 cocoa house1706 cocoa tavern1875 cocoa inn1902 1706 C. Gildon Post-boy robb'd of his Mail (ed. 2) xvi. 308 (heading) Being a Letter of Love and Gallantry..to be left at the Cocoa-House in the Pallmall. 1830 A. M. Porter Barony II. v. 152 He..entered one of the cocoa-houses—which in those days were open through the whole of every night. 1886 J. F. Chittenden Minor Industries 6 This can be effected, on a large scale, by..drying ‘in the sun’ in the ordinary cocoa-house. 1910 G. M. Baillie Reynolds Girl from Nowhere ii. 19 They are most unlikely to come here. They would go to a bar, not a cocoa-house. 1914 C. J. J. van Hall Cocoa ix. 466 An improvement was the establishment of large wooden trays..which could be rapidly pushed under the cocoa-shanty or cocoa-house..when rain came. 1996 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Sooner ed.) d1 Chocolate..was instantly the rage of the continent, with cocoa houses being opened as early as 1657. 2009 A. Vanderhoof Spice Necklace x. 248 David takes us upstairs in the estate's cocoa house..to show us how the cocoa beans would have been exposed to the sun to dry. < as lemmas |
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