| 单词 | cocoa press |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocoa press cocoa press n. (a) a press used to separate cocoa butter from the dark non-fat solid components of cocoa; (b) British (now historical) (with the and capital initials) a name for various Liberal newspapers owned or supposedly controlled by one of the several Quaker owners of major cocoa or chocolate companies in the 19th and 20th cent.; cf. Cocoa Quaker n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper gazette1607 contemporary1670 packet1678 exchange1798 funny paper1837 blanket sheet1839 broadsheet1840 special1861 cocoa press1907 bladder1936 regional1958 electronic paper1967 free1982 1907 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 16/7 (advt.) Various machines, consisting of roasters, cocoa presses, mills, [etc.]. 1910 Referee 16 Jan. 13/3 ‘Modern Slavery’, a pamphlet issued by the World deals in a forcible manner with the ‘Red Cocoa’ question. It..speaks its mind frankly on..the Pro-Boer campaign conducted largely by the Free Trade Cocoa Press. 1915 National Rev. Jan. 689 The glory of the Cocoa Press has departed. 1944 M. Ward G. K. Chesterton xvii. 255 The Daily News and other papers owned by Mr Cadbury (of Cadbury's Cocoa) were often referred to as ‘the Cocoa Press’. 1993 Stud. Conservation 38 218/1 The technique of making..‘eating’ chocolate developed in the early Victorian period, facilitated by the 1828 invention of the cocoa press by C. J. Van Houten. 2010 D. Cadbury Chocolate Wars xiv. 207 Hostility to Cadbury's and Rowntree's ‘Cocoa Press’ may have been exacerbated by the resounding success of the chocolate firms. < as lemmas |
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