Melban.

Brit.

/ˈmɛlbə/, U.S.

/ˈmɛlbə/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Melba.

Etymology: < Nellie Melba, the stage name adopted by Helen Porter Mitchell (1861–1931), Australian operatic soprano, who gained worldwide fame for her coloratura singing; Melba is shortened < the name of Melbourne , the capital of Victoria, Australia, where the singer was born and made her concert debut. Used attributively and as postmodifier designating dishes named in her honour, especially peach Melba n.; compare French Melba , in e.g. pêche à la Melba , pêche Melba pêche Melba n.Escoffier is said to have created toast Melba in 1897 (see quot. 1938 for Melba toast n. at sense 2). Nellie Melba was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1918, and continued to perform during her retirement years (compare sense 7).

I. Compounds (see also peach Melba n.).

1. Melba sauce n. a raspberry sauce for desserts.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > fruit sauces

lemon sauce1747

cranberry sauce1767

black butter1775

apple buttera1813

Pennsylvania salve1899

Melba sauce1907

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 33/2 Sauces..Melba (Escoffier's)—1/6.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 552/1 Melba Sauce, a bright-red sweet sauce made from fresh raspberries and served with fruit sundaes, peach melba and similar desserts.

1999 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 13 Aug. 24 I top the dessert with Melba sauce made the traditional way.

2. Melba toast n. (also toast Melba) thinly sliced bread toasted or baked until dry and crisp; esp. bread sliced thinly, toasted, then cut into even thinner slices and toasted on the untoasted side.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > toast > [noun]

frit14..

French toast1660

toast1735

tops and bottoms1765

fairy bread1874

Melba toast1913

eggy bread1983

1913 Good Housek. Mag. June 845/3 Clam cocktail..Melba toast.

1924 M. Arlen Green Hat ix. 265 She was buttering a piece of toast Melba about half an inch square.

1925 I. C. B. Allen Mrs. Allen on Cooking xii. 222 Patti Bread or Melba Toast.

1938 M. L. Ritz César Ritz xiv. 204 Toast thin slices of bread once, then cut it through again, and again toast it... The result was Escoffier's justly famous toast Melba... During that year [sc. 1897] Melba had returned from America very ill... I had heard Escoffier discuss her régime. Dry toast figured on it... ‘Call it toast Melba,’ I said.

1972 S. Atterbury Waste Not—Want Not 142 The Slow Cooking Method is ideal for Melba toast.

1995 Independent 4 Mar. 32/3 The Savoy continues with its tradition of serving Melba toast wrapped in a pink linen napkin as an appetizer before lunch and dinner. It even employs someone with the job title ‘Melba toast man’, whose task it is to make it every morning.

3. Melba apple n. = sense 4.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

pippin?1435

pomewater?1435

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

sweeting1530

pomeroyal1534

renneta1568

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

russeting1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

reinette1582

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pomeroy1600

short-start1600

jenneting1601

pome-paradise1601

russet coat1602

John apple1604

honey apple1611

honeymeal1611

musk apple1611

short-shank1611

spice apple1611

French pippin1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

renneting1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

reinetting1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

white-wining1676

russet1686

calville1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

musk1708

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

wine apple1802

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

wine-sap1826

Jonathan1831

Sturmer Pippin1831

rusty-coat1843

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Cornish gilliflowerc1850

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

nutmeg pippin1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Melba apple1928

Melba1933

Mutsu1951

Newtown1953

discovery1964

1928 Science 9 Mar. 268/2 The Wilder medal, one of the highest awards made by the American Pomological Society, has been given to the Canadian Government Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, for the Melba apple.

II. Simple uses.

4. A variety of apple originally developed in Canada (see sense 3).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of

costardc1390

bitter-sweet1393

pippin?1435

pomewater?1435

Queening?1435

richardine?1435

blaundrellc1440

pear apple1440

tuberc1440

quarrendenc1450

birtle1483

sweeting1530

pomeroyal1534

renneta1568

deusan1570

apple-john1572

Richard1572

lording1573

russeting1573

greening1577

queen apple1579

peeler1580

reinette1582

darling1584

doucin1584

golding1589

puffin1589

lady's longing1591

bitter-sweeting1597

pearmain1597

paradise apple1598

garden globe1600

gastlet1600

leather-coat1600

maligar1600

pomeroy1600

short-start1600

jenneting1601

pome-paradise1601

russet coat1602

John apple1604

honey apple1611

honeymeal1611

musk apple1611

short-shank1611

spice apple1611

French pippin1629

king apple1635

lady apple1651

golden pippin1654

goldling1655

puff1655

cardinal1658

renneting1658

green fillet1662

chestnut1664

cinnamon apple1664

fenouil1664

go-no-further1664

reinetting1664

Westbury apple1664

seek-no-farther1670

nonsuch1676

white-wining1676

russet1686

calville1691

fennel apple1699

queen1699

genet1706

fig-apple1707

oaken pin1707

musk1708

nonpareil1726

costing1731

monstrous reinette1731

Newtown pippin1760

Ribston1782

Rhode Island greening1795

oslin1801

wine apple1802

fall pippin1803

monstrous pippin1817

Newtown Spitzenburg1817

Gravenstein1821

Red Astrachan1822

Tolman sweet1822

grange apple1823

orange pippin1823

Baldwin1826

wine-sap1826

Jonathan1831

Sturmer Pippin1831

rusty-coat1843

Newtowner1846

Northern Spy1847

Cornish gilliflowerc1850

Blenheim Orange1860

Cox1860

nutmeg pippin1860

McIntosh Red1876

Worcester1877

raspberry apple1894

delicious1898

Laxton's Superb1920

Melba apple1928

Melba1933

Mutsu1951

Newtown1953

discovery1964

1933 A. D. Hall & M. B. Crane Apple xiii. 211 American Varieties..of those which have been tried in this country [sc. England] the following have proved to be vigorous growers and good croppers—Delicious, Labo, Mackintosh Red, Melba, [etc.].

1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 37/1 Among a bunch of scrub apple trees growing in the corner of an overgrown field was the apple that became the McIntosh..parent to more than 30 other commercial varieties, including such well-known ones as Lobo, Melba [etc.].

1995 Gusto! Oct. 37/2 If it's sauce you're after, it's sauce you'll get, as long as you use Melbas. ‘These are the best for applesauce..because they're smooth and cook down beautifully.’

5. A dessert of fruit and ice cream with fruit (esp. raspberry) sauce or syrup; = peach Melba n.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > ice-cream dishes

plombière1818

Alaska1882

parfait1884

taster1891

sundae1892

pêche Melba1902

black and white1903

peach Melba1906

banana split1920

split1920

cassata1927

spumoni1929

Knickerbocker Glory1936

Melba1953

coupe1969

semifreddo1973

affogato1992

1953 E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty ix. 161 Sundaes, shakes, parfaits, whips, melbas.

1964 A. Launay Caviare & After 137 Melba,..fruit served with vanilla ice-cream and thick raspberry syrup.

6. Meat served with a port-flavoured sauce and a garnish of truffles and mushrooms. Also: a garnish of tomatoes stuffed with chicken, truffles, mushrooms, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > other meat dishes

langue de boeuf1381

sawgeatc1390

pome-garneza1450

olive1598

potato pie1600

capilotade1611

carbonade1651

beef à la mode1653

Scots collops1657

Scotch collops1664

galantine1702

grenadine1706

scotched collops1708

à la mode beef1723

miroton1725

German duck1785

cottage pie1791

chartreuse1806

timbale1824

sanders1827

rognon1828

rolliche1830

schalet1846

old thing1848

Brunswick stew1855

scrapple1855

moussaka1862

cannelon1875

crépinette1877

shepherd's pie1877

chop suey1888

estouffade1889

noisette1891

chaudfroid1892

patty1904

boeuf bourguignon1915

sukiyaki1920

bœuf stroganoff1932

bœuf1936

flauta1938

rumaki1941

rendang1948

pastitsio1950

keema1955

bulgogi1958

moo shu1962

Melba1964

shabu-shabu1970

carpaccio1974

al pastor1977

gosht1982

parmo1999

parmesan2003

beef stroganof-

1964 A. Launay Caviare & After 137 Melba, large or small cuts of meat garnished with truffles, mushrooms, [etc.]..and served with a Port-flavoured sauce.

1990 J. Ayto Glutton's Gloss. Melba is also used for a garnish of small tomatoes stuffed with diced chicken, truffles and mushrooms in a velouté sauce.

7. Australian. to do a Melba: to return to one's profession after retirement; (of a singer or other performer) to give frequent farewell performances, to make frequent comebacks.

ΚΠ

1971 Australian 20 Feb. 22/4 The later years were marked by a seemingly endless round of farewell performances. ‘Doing a Melba’, they called it.

1974 Sydney Morning Herald 1 June 8/7 It has been intensified by talk from Sir Robert that he is under pressure to stay on, thus giving rise to speculation that he is planning to ‘do a Melba’.

1981 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Sept. 60 Scamp has been known to do a ‘Melba’ before. In fact he has announced his retirement four times.

1991 Australian 2 Jan. (Brisbane ed.) 9/7 Dame Joan [Sutherland] does a Melba for ‘home’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	melba
释义	Melban. Brit. /ˈmɛlbə/, U.S. /ˈmɛlbə/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Melba. Etymology: < Nellie Melba, the stage name adopted by Helen Porter Mitchell (1861–1931), Australian operatic soprano, who gained worldwide fame for her coloratura singing; Melba is shortened < the name of Melbourne , the capital of Victoria, Australia, where the singer was born and made her concert debut. Used attributively and as postmodifier designating dishes named in her honour, especially peach Melba n.; compare French Melba , in e.g. pêche à la Melba , pêche Melba pêche Melba n.Escoffier is said to have created toast Melba in 1897 (see quot. 1938 for Melba toast n. at sense 2). Nellie Melba was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1918, and continued to perform during her retirement years (compare sense 7). I. Compounds (see also peach Melba n.). 1. Melba sauce n. a raspberry sauce for desserts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > fruit sauces lemon sauce1747 cranberry sauce1767 black butter1775 apple buttera1813 Pennsylvania salve1899 Melba sauce1907 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 33/2 Sauces..Melba (Escoffier's)—1/6. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 552/1 Melba Sauce, a bright-red sweet sauce made from fresh raspberries and served with fruit sundaes, peach melba and similar desserts. 1999 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 13 Aug. 24 I top the dessert with Melba sauce made the traditional way. 2. Melba toast n. (also toast Melba) thinly sliced bread toasted or baked until dry and crisp; esp. bread sliced thinly, toasted, then cut into even thinner slices and toasted on the untoasted side. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > toast > [noun] frit14.. French toast1660 toast1735 tops and bottoms1765 fairy bread1874 Melba toast1913 eggy bread1983 1913 Good Housek. Mag. June 845/3 Clam cocktail..Melba toast. 1924 M. Arlen Green Hat ix. 265 She was buttering a piece of toast Melba about half an inch square. 1925 I. C. B. Allen Mrs. Allen on Cooking xii. 222 Patti Bread or Melba Toast. 1938 M. L. Ritz César Ritz xiv. 204 Toast thin slices of bread once, then cut it through again, and again toast it... The result was Escoffier's justly famous toast Melba... During that year [sc. 1897] Melba had returned from America very ill... I had heard Escoffier discuss her régime. Dry toast figured on it... ‘Call it toast Melba,’ I said. 1972 S. Atterbury Waste Not—Want Not 142 The Slow Cooking Method is ideal for Melba toast. 1995 Independent 4 Mar. 32/3 The Savoy continues with its tradition of serving Melba toast wrapped in a pink linen napkin as an appetizer before lunch and dinner. It even employs someone with the job title ‘Melba toast man’, whose task it is to make it every morning. 3. Melba apple n. = sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 pippin?1435 pomewater?1435 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 sweeting1530 pomeroyal1534 renneta1568 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 russeting1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 reinette1582 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pomeroy1600 short-start1600 jenneting1601 pome-paradise1601 russet coat1602 John apple1604 honey apple1611 honeymeal1611 musk apple1611 short-shank1611 spice apple1611 French pippin1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 renneting1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 reinetting1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 white-wining1676 russet1686 calville1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 musk1708 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 wine apple1802 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 wine-sap1826 Jonathan1831 Sturmer Pippin1831 rusty-coat1843 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Cornish gilliflowerc1850 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 nutmeg pippin1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Melba apple1928 Melba1933 Mutsu1951 Newtown1953 discovery1964 1928 Science 9 Mar. 268/2 The Wilder medal, one of the highest awards made by the American Pomological Society, has been given to the Canadian Government Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, for the Melba apple. II. Simple uses. 4. A variety of apple originally developed in Canada (see sense 3). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 pippin?1435 pomewater?1435 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 sweeting1530 pomeroyal1534 renneta1568 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 russeting1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 reinette1582 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pomeroy1600 short-start1600 jenneting1601 pome-paradise1601 russet coat1602 John apple1604 honey apple1611 honeymeal1611 musk apple1611 short-shank1611 spice apple1611 French pippin1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 renneting1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 reinetting1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 white-wining1676 russet1686 calville1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 musk1708 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 wine apple1802 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 wine-sap1826 Jonathan1831 Sturmer Pippin1831 rusty-coat1843 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Cornish gilliflowerc1850 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 nutmeg pippin1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Melba apple1928 Melba1933 Mutsu1951 Newtown1953 discovery1964 1933 A. D. Hall & M. B. Crane Apple xiii. 211 American Varieties..of those which have been tried in this country [sc. England] the following have proved to be vigorous growers and good croppers—Delicious, Labo, Mackintosh Red, Melba, [etc.]. 1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 37/1 Among a bunch of scrub apple trees growing in the corner of an overgrown field was the apple that became the McIntosh..parent to more than 30 other commercial varieties, including such well-known ones as Lobo, Melba [etc.]. 1995 Gusto! Oct. 37/2 If it's sauce you're after, it's sauce you'll get, as long as you use Melbas. ‘These are the best for applesauce..because they're smooth and cook down beautifully.’ 5. A dessert of fruit and ice cream with fruit (esp. raspberry) sauce or syrup; = peach Melba n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > ice-cream dishes plombière1818 Alaska1882 parfait1884 taster1891 sundae1892 pêche Melba1902 black and white1903 peach Melba1906 banana split1920 split1920 cassata1927 spumoni1929 Knickerbocker Glory1936 Melba1953 coupe1969 semifreddo1973 affogato1992 1953 E. Taylor Sleeping Beauty ix. 161 Sundaes, shakes, parfaits, whips, melbas. 1964 A. Launay Caviare & After 137 Melba,..fruit served with vanilla ice-cream and thick raspberry syrup. 6. Meat served with a port-flavoured sauce and a garnish of truffles and mushrooms. Also: a garnish of tomatoes stuffed with chicken, truffles, mushrooms, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > other meat dishes langue de boeuf1381 sawgeatc1390 pome-garneza1450 olive1598 potato pie1600 capilotade1611 carbonade1651 beef à la mode1653 Scots collops1657 Scotch collops1664 galantine1702 grenadine1706 scotched collops1708 à la mode beef1723 miroton1725 German duck1785 cottage pie1791 chartreuse1806 timbale1824 sanders1827 rognon1828 rolliche1830 schalet1846 old thing1848 Brunswick stew1855 scrapple1855 moussaka1862 cannelon1875 crépinette1877 shepherd's pie1877 chop suey1888 estouffade1889 noisette1891 chaudfroid1892 patty1904 boeuf bourguignon1915 sukiyaki1920 bœuf stroganoff1932 bœuf1936 flauta1938 rumaki1941 rendang1948 pastitsio1950 keema1955 bulgogi1958 moo shu1962 Melba1964 shabu-shabu1970 carpaccio1974 al pastor1977 gosht1982 parmo1999 parmesan2003 beef stroganof- 1964 A. Launay Caviare & After 137 Melba, large or small cuts of meat garnished with truffles, mushrooms, [etc.]..and served with a Port-flavoured sauce. 1990 J. Ayto Glutton's Gloss. Melba is also used for a garnish of small tomatoes stuffed with diced chicken, truffles and mushrooms in a velouté sauce. 7. Australian. to do a Melba: to return to one's profession after retirement; (of a singer or other performer) to give frequent farewell performances, to make frequent comebacks. ΚΠ 1971 Australian 20 Feb. 22/4 The later years were marked by a seemingly endless round of farewell performances. ‘Doing a Melba’, they called it. 1974 Sydney Morning Herald 1 June 8/7 It has been intensified by talk from Sir Robert that he is under pressure to stay on, thus giving rise to speculation that he is planning to ‘do a Melba’. 1981 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 20 Sept. 60 Scamp has been known to do a ‘Melba’ before. In fact he has announced his retirement four times. 1991 Australian 2 Jan. (Brisbane ed.) 9/7 Dame Joan [Sutherland] does a Melba for ‘home’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1907
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