单词 | fancy basket |
释义 | > as lemmasfancy basket a. Of a design varied according to the fancy; ‘fine, ornamental’, in opposition to ‘plain’; as in fancy basket, fancy cake, fancy trimming, etc. Also fancy dress n., fancy work n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adjective] > ornamented or decorated > ornamental or decorative trinkery1582 ornamental1595 bedecking1598 exornatory1657 ornative1660 ornamentary1715 fancy1753 decorative1791 artistic1835 decoratory1889 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > fancy cake fancy1891 fancy cake1912 mignardise1931 1753 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 5) App. 333 A few Astertion Flowers stuck here and there looks pretty..but Lemon, and all those Things are intirely Fancy. 1761 T. Gray Let. 22 Oct. in Corr. (1971) II. 761 They [wall papers] are all what they [the shops] call fancy. 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. I. 124 The fancy farm-houses,..I purposely pass over. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 211 He had for field duty two fancy uniforms. a1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion ii. ix, A very tall man with fiery red hair and fancy whiskers. 1842 Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 216 Fish are we that love the mud, Rising to no fancy-flies. 1866 A. D. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite ix, To grow intimate over tableau plans and fancy stitches. 1883 E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. June 78/1 ‘Fancy’ flour differs from the ordinary superfine in that the middlings are ground through smooth rollers. 1893 E. Hérissé Art of Pastry Making ii. 8 (heading) Fondant icing..for icing fancy pastry-cakes. 1893 E. Hérissé Art of Pastry Making xiii. 97 (heading) Fancy ornamental meringues. (Meringues décorées.) 1912 E. Hérissé Art of Pastry Making (new ed.) ii. 20 Dip in the fancy cakes or pastry with the point of a penknife or fork. 1960 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (ed. 5) 387/1 Small iced fancy cakes... Cut the cake into fancy shapes before icing. < as lemmas |
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