单词 | gram-fed |
释义 | > as lemmasgram-fed b. attributive, as gram-bread, gram-contract, gram-field; gram-fed adj. ΚΠ 1799 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 47 You mentioned some time ago that Purneah would bid for the gram contract when it was offered. 1849 C. J. Napier Jrnl. 4 Nov. in W. Napier Life & Opinions C. J. Napier (1857) IV. 201 A man..with a self-sufficient idea, that no one ‘can know India’ except through long experience of brandy, champagne, gram-fed [printed grain-fed] mutton, cheroots and hookahs. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 228 Gram bread or cakes have been occasionally used in India for Europeans. 1880 G. Aberigh-Mackay Twenty-one Days India 127 All the gram-fed secretaries and most of the alcoholic chiefs were there. < as lemmas |
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