单词 | damson |
释义 | damsonn. 1. a. A small plum, black or dark purple, the fruit of Prunus communis or domestica, variety damascena, which was introduced in very early times into Greece and Italy from Syria. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > damson damsona1400 damasee14.. damask prune1539 damson plum1584 damask plum1600 a1400 Pistill of Susan 89 Þer weore growyng so grene Þe Date wiþ þe Damesene. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 192 Take xx. damascenes & xii. figis. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 162 Damesyns. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 122 Serve fastynge, plommys, damsons, cheries and grapis to plese. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxi. sig. K.iv .vi. or .vii. damysens eaten before dyner be good to prouoke a mans appetyde. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 32 Damisens whit, & black. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §509 In Fruits, the white commonly is meaner, as in Pear-plumbs, Damosins, etc. 1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 57 The Damazeene also is an excellent fruit. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xviii. 154 (heading) To preserve Damsons Whole. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 51. ⁋14 The art of scalding damascenes without bursting them. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Fairchild Family I. xiv. 115 Mrs. Fairchild and Betty boiled up a great many damascenes in sugar. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Prunus institia, the Bullace..A variety occurs with yellowish fruit, which latter are sold in London as White Damsons. b. Locally, a distinction is sometimes made between damson and damascene, the latter being applied to the so-called damson-plum: see 1c. ΚΠ 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. at Damascene This and the damson are distinct sorts of plums: the damascene is the larger of the two, and not at all bitter; the damson is smaller, and has a peculiar bitter or roughness. 1891 Daily News 17 Nov. 5/2 In Nottinghamshire there is, it seems, a recognised distinction between ‘damsons’ or ‘damasons’ and ‘damascenes’..in the Newark County Court..a greengrocer..complained that whereas he had ordered damsons he was supplied with damascenes. c. damson plum n. formerly = sense 1a; later applied to a sub-variety of plum somewhat like the damson: see quot 1892. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > damson damsona1400 damasee14.. damask prune1539 damson plum1584 damask plum1600 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > other types of plum bullacea1375 myxe?1440 prunelloa1450 bullace-fruit1530 wheat-plum1538 wheaten plum1542 pear plum1573 finger plum1577 perdrigon1582 damson plum1584 apple-plum1601 bullace-plum1608 amber plum1629 Christian1629 queen mother1629 cinnamon-plum1664 date1664 Orleans1674 Chickasaw plum1760 blue gage1764 golden drop1772 beach-plum1785 quetsch1839 egg-plum1859 hog plum1863 bladder-plum1869 prune1872 Carlsbad plum1885 apricot plum1893 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cv. 92 The Damasin Plummes are woont to be dryed and preserued as figges. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Damaisine, a Damascene, or Damsen plum. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover iii. 60 It was..the best of plum-trees, it was a damsin plum. 1892 Daily News 13 Sept. 3/2 The damson plum..is quite as good for most purposes as the damson, and has not its acridity or roughness. 2. The tree which bears this: also damson tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > plum-tree > types of damson treea1398 bullace-treec1440 bullester1500 bullace1616 lote-tree1640 Catherine plum1691 white plum1696 bullet-bush1732 lotus1760 wild plum1838 wild-goose plum1909 apricot plum1957 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxv. 1021 Of þat tre [sc. plum] is many maner of kynde, but the damacene is þe beste. 14.. T. of Erceldoune 180 (Cambr.) Þe darte and also þe damsyn tre. 1575 Art of Planting 11 To set Damsons or Plum trees. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 267 In Aprill follow..The Dammasin, and Plum-Trees in Blossome. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 158 In shallow or wet soils it is better to bud [peaches] on plum stocks, such as damsons, St. Juliens, &c. 3. Applied to Chrysophyllum oliviferum of the West Indies (damson-plum, quot. 1756); bitter or mountain damson, a name for Simaruba amara. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 171 The Damson Plumb..is found wild in many parts of Jamaica. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 319 The Simaruba quassia, or mountain damson, as it is called in Jamaica. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 224 Simaruba officinalis..attains the height of sixty feet, and is called Bitter Damson, Mountain Damson, and Slave Wood. Compounds C1. attributive or adj. Of the colour of the damson. Also damson brown. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > purplish brown damson brown1661 lavender-brown1813 the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > deep purple jacinthinous1495 damson1661 imperial1736 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A5 Partridg, grecian, reddish, cinereous, white, and damascen. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1963/4 A Damson brown Mare. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. vi. iv. 347 Damascene colours, and other shades of browns of the common dye. C2. attributive and in other combinations, as damson dumpling, etc. ΚΠ 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vi. 158 To make Damson Dumplins. C3. damson-cheese n. an inspissated conserve of damsons and sugar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > cheese cheese1660 damson-cheesec1803 c1803 C. K. Sharpe New Oxf. Guide ii, in Mem. (1888) I. 15 Cakes, ruskins, prunelloes, and sweet damson cheese. damson-plum n. (see 1c, 3). damson-tart n. (also damson-pie) [after damn] slang profane language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language swarec1200 shit-wordc1275 words of villainya1300 filtha1400 reveriec1425 bawdry1589 scurrility1589 bawdy1622 tongue-worm1645 borborology1647 Billingsgatry1673 double entendre1673 smut1698 blackguardism1756 slang1805 epithet1818 dirty word1842 French1845 language1855 bad languagec1863 bestiality1879 swear-word1883 damson-tart1887 comminative1888 double entente1895 curse-word1897 bang-words1906 soldier's farewell1909 strong languagea1910 dirty story1912 dirty joke1913 bullocky1916 shitticism1936 Anglo-Saxonism1944 sweary1994 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 213 His language is profane from long habit—‘given over to damson tart like’, as they say in Arcady. 1888 W. Black Strange Adventures House-boat viii. (Farmer) Even if you were to hear some of the Birmingham lads giving each other a dose of damson-pie..you wouldn't understand a single sentence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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