单词 | biscuit |
释义 | biscuit —biscuitlike, adj. /bis"kit/, n. 1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker. b. a cookie. 3. a pale-brown color. 4. Also called bisque. Ceram. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing. 5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record. adj. 6. having the color biscuit. [1300-50; ME bysquyte < MF biscuit (ML biscoctus), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes BIS1 + cuit, ptp. of cuire < L coquere to COOK1] /bees kwee"/, n. French. a cookie or cracker. |
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