英语词汇“brown tommy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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Brown Tommy

† Brown Tommy n. (also Brown Tommie) Obsolete coarse brown bread, esp. that supplied to soldiers as rations; a loaf of this; cf. Tommy n.¹ 4a, Brown George n. 1a.

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1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Tommy Brown Tommy; ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks.

a1830 R. B. James in E. Fraser Napoleon the Gaoler (1914) 130 We were obliged to stick to our Brown Tommy.

1890 T. S. Cooper My Life I. i. 3 As for fine wheaten bread, I never saw that, and even ‘Brown Tommie’, as we called it, was at 1s. 8d. a loaf.

1902 Chambers's Jrnl. June 367/1 The regulation bun of eight, ten, or twelve ounces of brown ‘tommy’ is handed in.

extracted from brownadj.

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单词	brown tommy
释义	> as lemmas Brown Tommy † Brown Tommy n. (also Brown Tommie) Obsolete coarse brown bread, esp. that supplied to soldiers as rations; a loaf of this; cf. Tommy n.¹ 4a, Brown George n. 1a. ΚΠ 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Tommy Brown Tommy; ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks. a1830 R. B. James in E. Fraser Napoleon the Gaoler (1914) 130 We were obliged to stick to our Brown Tommy. 1890 T. S. Cooper My Life I. i. 3 As for fine wheaten bread, I never saw that, and even ‘Brown Tommie’, as we called it, was at 1s. 8d. a loaf. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. June 367/1 The regulation bun of eight, ten, or twelve ounces of brown ‘tommy’ is handed in. extracted from brownadj. < as lemmas
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