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单词 hovis
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Hovisn.

Brit. /ˈhəʊvɪs/, U.S. /ˈhoʊvəs/
A proprietary name for: a brand of flour; also, a loaf of brown bread made from this flour. Also attributive.
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Hovis1890
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > other types of loaf
white loafeOE
barley loafc950
French loafc1350
pease loafc1390
penny loaf1418
jannock?a1500
household loaf1565
boon-loaf1679
farmhouse loaf1795
cottage loaf1829
potato loaf1831
sod1836
Coburg1843
sweet roll1851
stale1874
Hovis1890
Sally Lunn1901
bloomer loaf1937
wholemeal1957
baguette1958
1890 Trade Marks Jrnl. 16 Nov. 1137/2 Hovis. Flour and Articles of Food, made partly or wholly of Flour, Richard Smith, Corn Flour Mills, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
1895 G. B. Shaw Let. 23 Dec. (1965) I. 584 Eat stewed fruit and hovis.
1898 Christian World 3 Feb. 4/5 Our representative was told that ‘Hovis’ was the concoction of a Cambridge undergraduate, being compounded of ‘hominis’ and ‘vis,’ ‘strength of man’.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 510/3 Hovis Food——No. 1, for infants...No. 2, for children and invalids.
1930 S. Beckett Whoroscope 3 So we drink Him and eat Him And the watery Beaune and the stale cubes of Hovis.
1932 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 5 Give me a half-pint, a Hovis.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 10 He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and complexion of a Hovis loaf.
1967 A. Laski Seven Other Years iii. 32 She liked the shapes of bread, and the different colours..some, Hovises and wholemeals, dark and interesting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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