| 单词 | rout furniture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrout furniture C1. General attributive and objective (in sense 8), as rout biscuit, rout day, rout furniture, rout-going, rout party, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1775 F. Burney Let. Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 171 He was obliged to go in..to Lady Harrington before he came, it being her Rout Day. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times III. 202 All the rout-going men and women of rank. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xxx. 265 She had not hired rout-chairs, rout-glasses, rout-china, to accommodate the guests. 1813 Examiner 15 Mar. 171/1 The usual lumber of a rout-party. 1858 C. Dickens Let. 5 Aug. (1995) VIII. 618 He is transformed into a Rout-Furniture-Dealer of Rathbone Place. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 252/2 The dough for rout biscuits is placed in a strong metal box or chamber in which a piston is tightly fitted. 1976 T. A. B. Corley in D. J. Oddy & D. S. Miller Making of Mod. Brit. Diet ii. 22 Factory-made biscuits when they came in still proved expensive. Huntley & Palmers' Rout biscuit, for formal parties, cost 2s. 2002 S. Laurens On Wild Night vii. 132 Supporting the wall at Mrs. Emerson's rout party, he studied the circle of which Amanda was the focus. < as lemmas |
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