单词 | hovis |
释义 | Hovisn. A proprietary name for: a brand of flour; also, a loaf of brown bread made from this flour. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > brand of flour 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). < n.1890 |
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