block ornamentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈblɒk ˌɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/, enPR: blŏk ôrnəmənt

名詞

block ornament (plural block ornaments)

1. (obsolete, slang, UK, Australia) A small fragment of cheap meat offered for sale by a butcher, particularly one of poor quality. [from 1843]
   • 1885, George Augustus Sala, America Revisited, Vizetelly & Company, page 501:

     It is certain that in the Chinese meat stores you see a number of scraps of meat of the "block ornament" order, the dubious hue of which–usually a dingy greyish purple, with streaks of drab fat– […]

   • 1897, Edward Spencer Mott, Cakes and Ale, page 78:

     [T]ogether with such scraps as may also be purchased, at a penny or twopence the plateful, at the beef and ham emporium, with maybe a "block ornament" or two from the butcher's, in a pie dish, with a superstructure of potatoes, and have the "scrap pie" cooked at the baker's for the Sunday dinner. Poor wretches!

   • 1909 January 7, Westminster Gazette‎, page 2:

     [H]ow often, after a search through the old purse they clutch so tightly, they turn away the coveted "block-ornimint" being beyond their means.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see block,‎ ornament.
   • 1833, Asher Benjamin, Practice of Architecture, →ISBN, page 92:

     a presents the elevation, b the section to the block ornament to A, and c shows a vertical section of the block ornament to B […]

   • 1852, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, page 171:

     The wall plate is finely moulded, and the wooden columns supporting the principals have a curious diamond block ornament.

派生語

• blocker

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
• “block ornament, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

参照

• Eric Partridge (2003) Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang, Routledge, page 424