| 单词 |
porto |
| 释义 |
‖ porto|ˈpɔətəʊ|
[a. Pg. pôrto port wine.]
a. = port n.7
b. In full porto français: an aperitif made from port; also attrib.
1847Disraeli Tancred i. i. 9 A capon in every platter, with some fountains of ale and good Porto. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xxviii. 564 Bring Port wine! I'll drink nothing but Porto-Porto. 1926R. Firbank Concerning Eccentricities Cardinal Pirelli vi. 65 All this Porto and stuff to keep awake make a woman liverish. 1935Schoonmaker & Marvel Compl. Wine Bk. iii. 88 The dark red Priorato of Catalonia, which was formerly sold as ‘Tarragona Port’,..is annually shipped to France, where it forms the base of several well-known commercial apéritifs, and is liberally used in the manufacture of ‘Porto français’. 1951R. Postgate Plain Man's Guide to Wine iii. 61 If he is with a Frenchman he can offer him ‘un porto’ which is like a cold and thin port, or ‘un malaga français’... But he should not drink them himself. 1961N. Froud et al. tr. Montagné's Larousse Gastronomique 761/1 Port, Porto, Portuguese wine... Sweet and soft, and in France it is sometimes drunk as an aperitif. It is used in preparing sauces. 1970N. Freeling Kitchen Bk. ii. 16 Porto, the invariable bourgeois apéritif. 1972A. L. Simon Gazetteer of Wines 194/2 Port, Porto or Vinho do Porto can only be produced in this area [sc. Douro]. 1974S. Coulter Château i. xxii. 172 It was foie gras with porto jelly. |
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