单词 | coupe |
释义 | coupen.1 a. A shallow cup, bowl, or glass. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > shallow flat-piece1422 quaich1546 whiskin1635 coupe1895 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 528/2 Soup Coupe Saucer shape. 1967 Spectator 29 Sept. 378/1 The tulip-shaped glass is much more suitable than the coupe—among other reasons because it holds the champagne bubbles more successfully. 1970 Southerly 30 17 Proudly he carried the brimming bucket into the kitchen where Medora was filling coupes with porridge. b. A mixture of ice-cream and fruit, etc., served in a glass goblet or the like; spec. coupe Jacques (see quot. 1951). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > ice-cream dishes plombière1818 Alaska1882 parfait1884 taster1891 sundae1892 pêche Melba1902 black and white1903 peach Melba1906 banana split1920 split1920 cassata1927 spumoni1929 Knickerbocker Glory1936 Melba1953 coupe1969 semifreddo1973 affogato1992 1905 E. Wharton House of Mirth ii. iv. 367 What sweet shall we have today, dear—Coupe Jacques or Pêches à la Melba? 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 421/2 Coupe Jacques. Half-fill the glass goblets with fruit salad, flavoured with kirsch, cover this with a layer of vanilla ice cream, and then add a layer of strawberry ice. Decorate with a glacé cherry. 1969 R. De Sola & D. De Sola Dict. Cooking 74/2 Coupe glacée, ice cream or sherbet combined with fruit or other ingredients; coupe is always served in a rimless bowl or cup. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coupen.2 A periodic felling of trees; also, the area so cleared. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 27 The annual or periodic coupes were further reduced to strips or to groups, known as the ‘Strip and the Group Systems’. 1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. ii. 4 In its ideal form the clear~cutting system involves felling and regenerating each year equal areas (coupes). 1928 Forestry 2 83 A block of one thousand acres of chestnut coppice worked on a twelve years' rotation (providing annual coupes of 83·3 acres). 1953 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. I (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 33 Coupes are preferably numbered with Roman numerals to distinguish them from compartments. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > see alsoalso refers to : coupcoupev.2 < n.11895n.21922 see also |
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