单词 | rose-water dish |
释义 | > as lemmasrose-water dish C1. General attributive, as rose-water bottle, rose-water bowl, rose-water cake, rose-water dish, rose-water ewer, etc. ΚΠ 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 248 Also Rose-Water Bottles, the best Water whereof is Distilled here. 1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Manners of Nations 49/2 About it [sc. the altar] were several silver flower pots and rose-water bottles. 1869 Corporation & College Plate 6 The fashion of ewers and rose-water dishes was introduced from the East to Europe. 1869 Corporation & College Plate Rose-water Ewer. 1886 Cakes & other Good Things (ed. 2) 3 Rose-water Cake. 1898 W. Jeanes & W. J. Robinson Gunter's Mod. Confect. (ed. 13) 263 Rosewater Ice. 1956 G. Taylor Silver v. 97 A rose-water dish of 1672 belonging to St John's College, Oxford. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 243/2 Rose-water ewer and dish or basin, used for finger-washing at table. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Feb. f3 I inhaled the fragrance from the open rose water bottle. < as lemmas |
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