| 释义 | ‖ piña|ˈpiːɲə|
Also 6 pinna, 6– pina.
[S. Amer. Sp. piña (formerly pinna), Pg. pinha pine-apple, orig. pine-cone, pine-nut (ad. L. pinea).]
†1. (Spelt pina, pinna, pinia.) The pine-apple.
1577Frampton Joyfull Newes 90 The Pinnas are a fruite whiche bee moste sette of in all the Indias. 1596Raleigh Discov. Gviana 61 Great abundance of Pinas, the princesse of fruits that grow under the sun. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. iii. (1676) 46 In America..their meat Palmitos, Pinas, Potatos, &c., and such fruits. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 93 Our boats returned loaden with plantynes, pinias, potatoes, sugar-canes.
2. Pine-apple leaf fibres (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858); a fine fabric made of these, more fully called piña-cloth, piña-muslin, pine-apple cloth.
1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 765 Pine-apple cloth,..sometimes known by the name of Pina Muslin. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pina-cloth, an expensive fabric made by the natives of the Philippines from the fibres of the pine-apple leaf. 1890Cent. Dict., Piña, Piña-cloth.
3. The spongy cone of amalgam left behind after part of the mercury has been eliminated: also anglicized pinne. (See also quot. 1875.)
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xii. 245 They put all the mettall into a cloth, which they straine out very forcibly, so as all the quicke-silver passeth out..and the rest remaines as a loafe of silver, like to a marke of almonds pressed to draw oyle. And being thus pressed, the remainder containes but the sixt part in silver, and five in mercurie... Of these markes they makes pinnes, (as they call them,) like pine apples, or sugar loaves, hollow within, the which they commonly make of a hundred pound weight. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pina (Spanish), amalgamated silver. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Pina (Spanish), the pile of wedges or bricks of hard silver amalgam placed under a capellina and subjected to heat, for the expulsion of the mercury. 1890Cent. Dict., Piña.
4. piña colada |kəʊˈlɑːdə| [Sp., lit. ‘strained pineapple’], a long drink made with pineapple juice, rum, and coconut.
1975P. Moyes Black Widower xiii. 159 In the bar itself, ice tinkled merrily into tall glasses of rum punch and pina colada, and smooth, sun-tanned men and women sipped and chatted. 1977N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 42/1 She is wearing a long, batik-printed dress and bearing two piña coladas on a tray. 1978Chicago June 172/3 There was gin and piña coladas and talk about Estée Lauder..and money..and clothes. |
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