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单词 harriet lane
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Harriet Lanen.

/ˌharɪət ˈleɪn/
Etymology: < the name of Harriet Lane, a famous murder victim; compare Fanny Adams n.
slang (chiefly Nautical).
Preserved meat, esp. Australian tinned meat.
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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).
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