单词 | cakes of roses |
释义 | > as lemmascakes (also honey, sugar, syrup, water) of roses c. In phrases denoting chiefly cosmetic, culinary, or medicinal preparations scented or flavoured with rose petals or rose oil, as cakes (also honey, sugar, syrup, water) of roses. Cf. Compounds 1a(c), rose cake n., and rose water n. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 84 Me schal doo wiþinne byndinge medycynes..as water of roses wiþ wommannes melk. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 27 (MED) Quynade: Take Quynces..caste hem on a potte & caste þer-to water of Rosys. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. 52 b/1 Recipe of syrupe de besantiis, of syrupe of roses. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. vi. 7 Iulep of Roses and Violettes, or Syrupus acetosus. 1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος ci. 150 Now and then the dry places were anointed with honey of Roses, and sometimes with Butter, and so she was cured. 1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 785 Manna dissolv'd in Syrup of Roses. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 61 Remnants of Packthread, and old Cakes of Roses. 1686 W. Denton Let. in M. M. Verney Mem. (1899) IV. ix. 359 I could wish you would take sugar of roses with yr. asses' milke. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Appetite With a little Syrup of Roses make a small Lump of it. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Sugar of Roses, is made of Red-Rose Leaves, dried in an Oven. 1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 410/3 Milk of Roses..the most friendly Preserver and Clearer of the Skin. 1826 Lancet 30 Dec. 406/1 The mouth was washed out frequently with elder tea and honey of roses. 1850 Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 153 The extrait or esprit of roses, violets, mignionette, jessamine, orange-flowers, acacia, tuberose, and lavender are, beyond question, the most exquisite of all perfumes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 193 Hot herringpies, green mugs of sack, honeysauces, sugar of roses, marchpane, gooseberried pigeons, ringocandies. 1994 L. J. Acierno Hist. Cardiol. vi. xxx. 704 His pharmacopeia was simple, limited to syrup of roses or senna and blood-letting. < as lemmas |
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