单词 | sauceboat |
释义 | sauceboatn. 1. A shallow boat-shaped jug or dish used for serving sauces with a meal, typically having a handle at one end and a lip for pouring at the other. Cf. boat n.1 3a, gravy-boat n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > sauce dish saucer1348 boat1464 sauceboat1728 1728 Catal. Houshold Furnit. T. Coke (J. Cooper) 19 Two sauce boats. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery i. 6 You may do Half the Quantity and put it into your Sauce-Boat or Bason. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Sam. Titmarsh iv I had..pretty nearly all the oysters out of the sauce-boat. 1951 Gourmet May 71/2 Simmer the sauce.., strain it into a sauceboat, and serve separately. 2004 North Shore (Brit. Columbia) News (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Final ed.) (Living Room section) 25 Serve the gravy in a sauceboat. 2. Archaeology. A ceramic, metal, or stone vessel of a type characteristic of Greece and the Cyclades in the mid to late 3rd millennium bc, probably used for drinking, typically having a small handle at one end and a wide elongated lip or spout at the other. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > open vessels for liquids > [noun] > specific early Helladic or Cycladic sauceboat1919 1919 A. J. Wace & C. W. Blegen in Ann. Brit. School Athens 1916–18 22 177 The most usual shapes are jugs, small open bowls, askoi..and sauceboats. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) iv. 157 Another unusual ceramic vessel common to the three areas is the sauce-boat which also occurs in Early Helladic Greece in gold. 2017 O. Philaniotou in M. Marthari et al. Early Cycladic Sculpt. in Context xv. 214/1 Sauceboats with pedestal bases are common in the Cyclades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < |
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