单词 | floating island |
释义 | floating island [f. floating ppl. a.] 1. An island that floats.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 13 The Whales, the Seas Leviathan..like so many floating Ilands concomitating us. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. xxxi. 186 There is a floating island in it, well wooded. 2. Cookery. (U.S.) A custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
1771Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 415 At dinner..we had a floating island. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. vii. (1891) 110 The marvellous floating-island. |

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