| 单词 | farmhouse tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfarmhouse tea C3. As a modifier, designating a meal served on or typical of that served on a farm, esp. comprising home-grown or home-made produce, as in farmhouse dinner, farmhouse tea, etc. ΚΠ 1816 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Narr. Demolit. Monastery Port Royal des Champs 315 If we liked to take a farm-house dinner, they would with the greatest pleasure get us whatever their house afforded. 1824 Minerva 28 Feb. 369/2 We sat down together to the homely pleasantries of a farm house meal. 1858 A. von Beresford Millicent I. 199 A regular substantial meal; the beau ideal of a Farmhouse tea. Such bread, such butter, such cakes, such eggs, such cream, such jams! 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency vii. 55 We'd all break for a farmhouse tea of hot buttered scones at four o'clock. 2009 Guardian 12 Sept. (Travel section) 4/4 A farmhouse supper (greens from the vegetable garden and their own beef). < as lemmas |
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