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wafery
語源
wafer + -y
名詞
wafery (uncountable)
- (obsolete, historical) A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
- 1474, Ordinances for the Government of Prince Edward, Son of King Edward IV in A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1790, “Office of Greate Spycerye,” p. 80,[1]
- One secundary clerke in this office of the greate spycery, sufficiaunt to resceive and trulye to keepe the Kinge’s stuffe of this office; and to wryte the dayly bookes of the delyveraunces thereof, and of all the other three offices, as it shall require; and he to awnswere to everye parcell of them into the counting-house, as for suger to the wafery, or to the sellare or kychyn, with all other manner of spices nedefull to the confectionarye and sawcerye […]
- 1531, The Privy Purse Expences of King Henry the Eighth, edited by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, London: William Pickering, 1827, p. 139,[2]
- 1603, Richard Niccols, A Funeral Oration, upon the Death of the Late Deceased Princesse of Famous Memorye, Elizabeth, London: E. White, “Queen Elizabeths Funerall,”[3]
- 1886, W. Carew Hazlitt, Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, London: Elliot Stock, “Meals,” p. 244,[4]
- It was not till comparatively recent times that the wafery, a special department of the royal kitchen, where the confectionery and pastry were prepared, was discontinued.
- 1474, Ordinances for the Government of Prince Edward, Son of King Edward IV in A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1790, “Office of Greate Spycerye,” p. 80,[1]
形容詞
wafery (comparative more wafery, superlative most wafery)
- Like a wafer (especially, thin, brittle, light).
- 1847, Charles Lanman, A Summer in the Wilderness; Embracing a Canoe Voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior, New York: D. Appleton, Chapter 24, p. 145,[5]
- 1900, Annie French Hector (as “Mrs. Alexander”), The Step-Mother, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 4, p. 65,[6]
- 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 2,
- 2002, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, “Confessions of a kitchen tart,” The Guardian, 8 December, 2002,[7]
- I had one further mission, to investigate the famous Moroccan pastilla—a parcel of wafery pastry filled with an exotic concoction of meat (classically pigeon), almonds, spices, sugar and eggs.
- (of bread) Sliced very thinly.
- 1864, Louisa M. Alcott, Boston: Loring, Chapter 5, p. 94,[8]
- This was none of your stand-up, wafery, bread and butter teas, but a thorough-going, sit-down supper […]
- 1888, Richard Dowling, Miracle Gold, Toronto: William Bryce, Chapter 14, p. 125,[9]
- 1947, Patricia Wentworth, Spotlight, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949, Chapter 12,[10]
- 1864, Louisa M. Alcott, Boston: Loring, Chapter 5, p. 94,[8]
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