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单词 mange-tout
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mange-toutn.

Brit. /ˌmɒn(d)ʒˈtuː/, /ˌmɒ̃ʒˈtuː/, U.S. /ˌmɑnʒˈtu/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, mange-touts.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mange-tout.
Etymology: < French mange-tout (first attested 1867 in this sense, although earlier more fully as pois mange-tout (c1700)) < manger to eat (see maunge v.) + tout all (see tout adv., n.4, and adj.).
A variety of pea, Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon, producing pods which have no fibrous inner layer and are eaten whole while still unripe with the seeds they contain (also mange-tout pea); the pods of this pea used as a vegetable; = sugar pea n. at sugar n. Compounds 3c.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > sugar-pea
sugar pea1707
mange-tout1823
snow pea1949
1823 P. Neill Jrnl. Hort. Tour 489 I noticed a kind of pea with the legumens very much bent, and called the Pois des Couches: it was a mange-tout, or used without shelling.
1928 Daily Express 18 July 5/2 It [sc. a variety of pea] is largely grown in France, where it goes by the name of ‘mange-tout’..and is eaten, shell and all.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 591/1 The seeds [sc. peas] are contained in a green pod, which is not usually eaten (except in the case of the sugar or mangetout variety).
1966 Sunday Times 27 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 50/3 A bowl of mangetout peas.
1974 Observer 15 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 12/3 Asked with impious briskness precisely when to sow mange-touts, divide artichokes or prune plums.
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 26/1 A typical Sloane dinner-party menu could be jellied consommé and mock-caviar with scrambled eggs, followed by a roast, with mange-tout.
1987 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) Nov. 310 (advt.) Mange Tout peas are at their crispest uncooked as a salad.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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