| 单词 | palm wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalm wine palm wine n. [compare French vin de palmes (1575), Dutch †wijn de palma (1596 in the passage translated in quot. 1598)] wine made by fermenting the sap of palm trees; (also) the sap itself as collected for drinking or fermentation (perhaps obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > palm-wine nipa1588 palmetto wine1589 palm wine1598 sura1598 date wine1603 toddy?1611 tuba1704 pardon1705 pardon-wine1705 Palm1712 sagwire1792 itaa1832 tembo1850 tuak1852 palm-toddy1857 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 201/2 There was a great pot of Palme wine [Du. Wijn de Palma] brought forth. 1770 J. Banks Jrnl. 18 Sept. (1962) II. 153 We returned on board, having only just tasted their Palm wine..being the fresh and unfermented juice of the tree. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxii. 311 They found several inhabitants collecting palm-wine. 1994 Harper's Mag. June 33 He wishes someone would bring him a gourd of palm wine, a platter of imported fruits [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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