单词 | popote |
释义 | popoten. French Military. A kitchen, a canteen; a soldiers' mess. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > field or army kitchen field kitchen1796 trench kitchen1860 slum gun1917 soup gun1918 popote1928 society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > provision or procurement of supplies > supplies > ration > field kitchen field kitchen1796 trench kitchen1860 popote1928 1928 Observer 11 Mar. 17/7 By 1870 the young cook had become a chef, and he had charge of the kitchen of the Headquarters of the Army of the Rhine and later of MacMahon's Headquarters Mess, or ‘popote’, at Versailles during the Commune. 1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 74 This..is the story..as they tell it..in the smoky popotes of the French army. 1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 43 The French cooks were getting dinner at the popote behind me. 1990 Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. (Overseas news section) Colonel Derville, sitting on Arabian carpets and beside a large silver Arab water pipe in the popote, or officers' field mess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1928 |
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