单词 | maza |
释义 | mazan. Ancient History. In ancient Greece: a type of simple bread, cake, or pancake made from barley meal. ΚΠ 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 24 He laid hold of the Daunian Bear, which did much hurt to the people thereabout, and having stroked her awhile, and given her Maza and fruits,..he let her go. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 326 They have a meat resembling the old Maza, which was meal mixed with water and oyl, with gobbets of flesh. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Maza,..A Dish made of Water and Oil, or Milk mingled with Flower [misprinted Flowet], which poor People anciently us'd in stead of Bread; Hasty-pudding, Flummery. c1792 Encycl. Brit. X. 698/2 Maza, among the Athenians, was a sort of cake made of flour boiled with water and oil, and set, as the common fare, before such as were entertained at the public expence in the common hall or prytaneum. 1847 S. G. Goodrich Anc. Hist. cclxii. 441 The most ordinary food, or staff of life, was the maza, which, in New England, we should call ‘Johnny-cake’. It was made of barley, or wheaten meal. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food vi. 177 From the maza of classical times, a cooked cereal mush which became thicker and thicker until it was the consistency of traditional Scottish porridge, people progressed to making thick pancakes on hot stones. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1660 |
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