单词 | lyons |
释义 | Lyonsn. Used attributively to designate various products associated with the city (see quots.); also absol. ΚΠ 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxxi. 116 I could..sometimes not so much as see even a Lyons-waistcoat, but this remnant of antiquity would present itself. 1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xvi. 100 We found her..very busy in wiping her negligee..as she said it was a new Lyon's silk. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 234 'Twill be a most excellent opportunity to shew off her best Lyons' silk. 1851 H. Mayhew & J. Binny 1851 xvi. 160 The jewels and the tapestry, and the Lyons silks, are not now the sole objects of attraction. 1855 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. i. 6 I can cut my bread..like Lyons sausage. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxx. 319 Lyons velvets rank higher in America than those of Genoa. 1872 Young Englishwoman Dec. 646/1 Lyons grosgrains and moire silks. 1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing ii. iii. 195 (heading) Aniline blues... Lyons blue (Girard and De Laire). 1895 Brit. Warehouseman Feb. 13/2 A triple-pleated blouse of purple Lyons velvet was worn. 1902 S. J. Weyman In Kings' Byways i. 161 The hiding-places..had been.. contrived to hold runlets of Nantz and bales of Lyons. 1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iii. vi. 385 She bought..coffee, Lyons sausage, dried prunes. 1914 F. W. Atack tr. A. Wahl Manuf. Org. Dyestuffs iii. xvi. 171 The monophenyl- and monotolyl-derivatives [of Pararosaniline] occur in the dyestuffs known as Phenyl violet,..Lyons blue, etc. 1924 A. T. de Mouilpied Quest for Colour iv. 20 Summary of the more important discoveries in the history of synthetic organic dyestuffs... 1860 Bleu de Lyon—a spirit soluble blue derived from Magenta. [Discoverer] Girard and De Laire. 1950 ‘P. Wentworth’ Brading Coll. xi. 67 Great ladies..had bought changeable silks there, and fine Lyons velvet. 1959 D. Ogrizek France Observed 211 The contribution local artists have made toward enhancing the prestige of Lyons silk has always been recognised. 1960 E. David French Provinc. Cooking 225 Randall & Aubin..sell a coarsely-cut garlic-flavoured sausage which is not unlike the Lyon sausage. 1971 Colour Index (Soc. Dyers & Colourists) (ed. 3) V. 5573 Commercial name..Lyon Blue..C.I. Solvent Blue 3. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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