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单词 george brown
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George Brown
3. Oxford University slang. A small loaf of bread. Also George Brown. Cf. Brown George n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > brown loaf
Negro's head1670
Brown George1688
George1755
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. George, a brown loaf. Of this sense I know not the original.
1791 Ld. Jeffrey Let. 25 Oct. in Ld. Cockburn Life (1852) II. 3 Most of us choose to walk till nine o'clock, at which hour a George (that is to say a round penny roll) is served up, with a bit of butter..into each of our chambers.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxii. 66 We had each a little loaf set before us, called by the singular name of George Brown.
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