| 单词 | bread and milk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbread and milk bread and milk n. (a) bread soaked in hot milk, considered as a plain or readily digestible meal suitable for children, convalescent people, etc., or else used as a poultice (cf. milk poultice n.) (now chiefly historical); (b) the cuckooflower, Cardamine pratensis (now chiefly in lists of alternative names for the plant). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops brewisc1440 pain perdua1450 bread and milk1549 sugar-sops1581 Poor Knights1659 breadberry1715 milk toast1840 sop1845 kettle-broth1880 slinger1882 1549 in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 712/1 Lett him haue a toste and butter, or bread and milk, & that is more meete for him than to make lawes or statutes. 1785 R. Bromfield in Med. Communications 2 24 A bread and milk poultice. 1817 J. Thacher Amer. Mod. Pract. ii. ii. 261 Their diet [sc. children with chicken pox]..should consist chiefly of broth, light puddings, and bread and milk. 1858 C. C. Wilkinson Weeds & Wild Flowers 131 ‘Bread and milk’, like all its congeners, all the Crucīferæ, is also a pre-eminently useful herb. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 210 Cardamine pratensis,..bread-and-milk,..cuckoo-flower,..lady's smock. 2015 T. Hart Health in City iii. 103 The Lincoln Day Nursery cared for children from infancy through the age of two and fed them bread and milk twice daily. < as lemmas |
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