| 单词 |
bouillon |
| 释义 |
‖ bouillon|bujɔ̃|
Also 8 bouillion.
[F. bouillon, f. bouillir to boil.]
1. a. Broth, soup. Also in comb. bouillon cube, a cube of beef (or other meat) extract with seasonings.
1656in Blount Glossogr. (as Fr.) 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sorrel, Bouillons or thin Broth. c1865Circ. Sc. I. 343/2 What in France is sold under the name of bouillon-cakes, is nothing but gelatine. 1934in Webster. 1954E. David Ital. Food 39 Chicken bouillon cubes..are quite excellent. Ibid., The same firm also make good beef bouillon cubes. 1960Sunday Express 10 Apr. 15/4 A little light stock made from a bouillon cube.
b. A broth used as a medium for the culture of bacteria. Also attrib.
1887T. M'C. Anderson Treat. Dis. Skin 289 Injections made under the skin with Bouillon of recent cultivation..set up gangrene of the skin. 1897Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. IV. 183 Peptone Bouillon at 37° C.—A cloudiness appears in the broth in 12–18 hours. 1903Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 10/1 Five cubic centimetres of a highly poisonous bouillon culture of certain bacteria (streptococci) was injected under the skin of the ears of rabbits. 1909Practitioner Nov. 591 Five decigrams of a bouillon culture of streptococcus of erysipelas.
2. A saline ‘bath’, or solution of an alkali, in which wool is steeped previous to dyeing.
1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. ii. i, Wool Boiled in a bath with saline substances—this is called the bouillon.
3. An excrescence of flesh in the foot of a horse.
4. In Dressmaking. A puffed fold.
1869Daily News 4 Mar., Her Serene Highness..wore a blue satin train, trimmed with bouillonnes of white tulle. |
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