liaisonn.
/lɪˈeɪzn/, /lɪˈeɪzɒn/, /lɪˈeɪzɒ̃/, /ˈljɛzɒ̃/, U.S. /ˈliəˌzɑn/, /liˈeɪˌzɑn/ 1. Cookery. A thickening for sauces, consisting chiefly of the yolks of eggs; †also, the process of thickening. (Cf. lear n.2 2.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [noun] > thickening
liaisona1665
the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > thickening agent
lear?c1390
liaison1759
arrowroot?1790
roux1793
Tahiti arrow-root1861
filé1885
gumbo filé1978
Oatrim1990
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 181 The last things (of Butter, bread, flower) cause the liaison and thickening of the liquor.
1759 W. Verral Compl. Syst. Cookery xv. 92 Prepare a liaison, or four or five yolks of eggs and some cream.
1797 London Compl. Art Cookery 142 Make ready a liason of two or three eggs and cream, with a little minced parsley and nutmeg.
1797 London Compl. Art Cookery 146 Skim and sift the sauce, add a little cullis to make it a liason.
1877 in Cassell's Dict. Cookery.
2.
a. gen. An intimate relation or connection.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness
cousinagea1398
alliancea1475
affinityc1485
propinquitya1500
societya1513
kindred1528
cognationa1555
affinitive1579
sympathya1586
vicinity1594
affiance1597
contingence1612
contingency1612
congeniality1620
umbilicality1646
consanguinity1651
congeneracy1664
gossipred1674
congenerousness1677
closeness1692
intimacy1720
proximity1762
liaison1809
cousinship1848
affiliation1870
kinship1876
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friendly relation(s) > intimate relation or connection
liaison1809
1809 Edinb. Rev. 14 226 The liaisons of Merlin with this man and Bazire gave rise to the following jeu d'esprit.
1870 Putnam's Mag. May 545/2 The knowledge gained from these new sources..has..given new zest to the alleged liaisons of the Republic.
1974 Country Life 5 Dec. 1814/2 Florence..remained..a home from home for the British... It is a liaison that seems to have lasted happily down the years.
b. spec. An illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > illicit intimacy or love affair
amour1590
liaison1816
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy
lemanry1483
intrigo1648
blanket-lovea1657
intrigue1668
affair1700
connection1791
liaison1816
entanglement1863
mpango wa kando2009
1816 Ld. Byron Let. 24 Dec. (1976) V. 148 She is by far the prettiest woman I have seen here... I believe I told you the rise and progress of our liaison in my former letter.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxv. 15 Some chaste liaison of the kind—I mean An honest friendship with a married lady.
1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 7 Aug. (1964) II. 316 He [sc. Byron] has a permanent sort of liaison with Contessa Guiccioli.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. ix. 89 ‘If it were but a temporary liaison,’ the excellent man said, ‘one could bear it... But a virtuous attachment is the deuce’.
1853 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 3rd Ser. I. ii. 35 He was always much addicted to Gallantry, and had endless liaisons with women.
3. Phonetics. The joining of a final consonant (which would in pause or before a consonant be silent) to a following word beginning with a vowel or ‘mute’ h. Also in Music, in wider sense.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > liaison of final
liaison1884
1884 A. Gosset Fr. Prosody 43 There is one letter in English, r, which admits in some cases of a sort of liaison in correct modern pronunciation.
1905 Daily Chron. 7 Feb. 4/7 The nightly false ‘liaison’ made by a clever actress... ‘Take Lady Agatha-r-out,’ she says with terrible distinctness.
1917 G. B. Shaw in Nation 28 July 429/2 I will not blame the singer for putting in a little liaison of her own at the reprise.
1929 Amer. Speech 5 87 I noticed recently a curious instance of consonant liaison (if that is the term for a carrying-over that is commoner in French than in English).
1962 Listener 6 Sept. 369/3 To our singers the style, the flavour, the true placing of the sounds, the liaisons—every aspect is elusive and deceptive.
4. Military. Close connection and co-operation between two units, branches, allies, etc., esp. during a battle or campaign. Also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > liaison or co-operation
liaison1816
army cooperation1864
multilateralization1941
society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > [noun] > liaising
liaison1816
liaising1948
1816 H. Clarke Hist. War I. xliii. 702/1 Other advantages of a great and important nature arise from the combinations of the various corps of their invading armies maintaining their liaison or correspondence, by means of the..staff-establishments attached to every division.
1915 Oxf. Mag. 29 Oct. 18/2 The ‘overseer’ of the Press..an unrivalled artist in the liaison of departments.
1920 G. H. Perris Battle of Marne xi. 225 With the I Army pulling north-west, the II Army pulling south-east,..how could anything more than a pretence of liaison be kept up?
1920 Q. Rev. July 138 It acted rather as a liaison between the Admiralty and the Press Bureau than as a branch of the latter.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 268/1 The artillery support was weak..partly through insufficient liaison with the infantry.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 967/2 The welfare supervisor..is thus able to refer all matters calling for attention direct to the general manager and may be regarded by him as a liaison between him and the various departments dealing with the women employees.
1930 A. W. Myers Lawn Tennis ix. 113 Mind and body must be working in liaison.
1964 B. B. Schofield Russ. Convoys ii. 27 The main trouble during the first years of the war was the shortage of aircraft—otherwise the liaison between the two services was as good as it could be.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1916 War Illustr. 9 Dec. 405 (caption) Army liaison dog leaving with a message attached to his collar.
1918 Daily Chron. 19 June 2/2 This position as ‘liaison Minister’ between the House and the War Cabinet.
1930 Notes & Queries 5 Apr. 250/2 This [book] is a liaison treatise of which ethics is the warp, and economics the very much less important woof, while the whole is coloured with a tinge of metaphysics.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 23 ‘L’ [stands] for ‘Liaison pilot’.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Feb. 11/5 The Navy has tabbed entertainment with the high-sounding name liaison unit.
1964 Amer. Speech 39 233 Compares duration of liaison consonants, as in des airs, with that of medial consonants, as in désert.
1966 B.B.C. Handbk. 75 The main duty of the department is to act in a liaison capacity.
C2.
liaison officer n. an officer in the Services who is concerned with the liaison of units, etc.; also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > liaison officer
liaison officer1915
Town Major1916
1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 285 He is one of that most efficient body, the French liaison officers, who act as connecting-link between the Allied Forces.
1917 Times 5 May 8/4 The D.S.O. was conferred on him for conspicuous service while acting as artillery liaison officer with the R.F.C.
1917 Times 5 June 7/1 Members of Parliament have tended less and less in recent times to fulfil their primary duty as liaison officers between Parliament and the constituencies.
1954 A. Huxley Let. Apr. (1969) 704 You unquestionably are the man to act as liaison officer between pure science and the rest of the world in this matter of the nature of the Mind.
1973 Times 14 Nov. 8/1 The Israeli liaison officer said he had still not received permission for the journalists to go on to Suez.
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