| 单词 | poule |
| 释义 | ▪ I. ‖ poule|pul|
[Fr., = ‘hen’.]
1. poule au pot, in Gastronomy, a boiled chicken casserole. Also fig.
1884N. Lake Menus made Easy iv. 99 A fowl boiled and served with Bourgeoise sauce is called Poule au pot. 1930M. T. & L. Bonney French Cooking for Eng. Kitchens vii. 150 The Poule au Pot has as dignified a place on a menu as the Poussin. 1962Harper's Bazaar Dec. 97/1 Chicken served as poule au pot. 1971A. Mizener Saddest Story xxxii. 433 An absolute monarchy committed to all Ford's favorite Tory doctrines—the poule au pot of the French peasant instead of the ‘boiled fowls out of a pot that is no pot but a can’ of American mass production.
2. slang. A girl or young woman, esp. one regarded as being promiscuous. Also poule-de-luxe, a prostitute.
1926E. Hemingway Sun also Rises iii. 14 The poules going by, singly and in pairs. 1937[see chichi n.2 and a.]. 1949‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music vi. 87 All I know of the tricks used by poules-de-luxe. 1949J. B. Priestley Home is Tomorrow 43 He is probably amusing himself somewhere with that little brown poule of his. 1955D. Barton Glorious Life i. 12 ‘If I had thought she would have understood,’ said Swindlehurst, ‘I would have called her to her face ‘the typing poule’.’ 1958L. Durrell Mountolive v. 102, I answer him in the voice of a poule from the Midi. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 1213/3 Returns to France to find that his wife has remarried and that his daughter is in business as a poule de luxe and doing very well. 1979Ibid. 23 Nov. 14/5 The archimandrite who regularly used the express between Sofia and Belgrade to entertain his poules.
▪ II. poule
obs. f. Paul, pole n.1, poll. |
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