单词 | harriet lane |
释义 | Harriet Lanen. slang (chiefly Nautical). Preserved meat, esp. Australian tinned meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > tinned meat rillettes1858 Fanny Adams1884 tinned dog1895 Harriet Lane1896 Maconochie1901 monkey meat1918 Spam1937 luncheon meat1945 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 153/2. 1909 B. Lubbock Deep Sea Warriors ix. 117 I'd rayther eat this here than the Harriet Lane we get served out for our Sunday dinner. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 150/2 Harriet Lane, Australian canned meat—because it had the appearance of chopped up meat; and Harriet Lane was chopped up by one Wainwright. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Carry On! 28 ‘Fanny Adams’ and ‘Harriet Lane’ were the names once given to the preserved meat issued to seamen. 1932 J. W. Harris Days of Endeavour viii. 134 A meal of pantiles and cold ‘Harriet Lane’ is provided. 1938 W. E. Dexter Rope-yarns 30 On Sunday we were allowed 1 lb. of preserved meat, known as ‘Harriet Lane’, from the name of a woman who had disappeared. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1896 |
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