Author: Semper Fidelis (---.netgworld.com)
Date: 11-11-04 19:36
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> Собственно, и OED говорит о том же самом.
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> China-orange, the Sweet Orange of commerce (Citrus
> Aurantium), originally brought from China;
>
> 1796 Nemnich Polygl.-Lex., Sweet orange, Citrus
> aurantium sinense.
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> 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 908 The oil of orange-flowers, called
> neroli, is extracted from the fresh flowers of the citrus
> aurantium… The aqueous solution, known under the name of
> orange-flower water, is used as a perfume.
> ‘orange-“flower.
>
> orange-flower water, the aqueous solution of orange-flowers;
> the fragrant watery distillate left over in the preparation of
> neroli oil.
>
> 1750 Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. (1861) II. 571 Making
> *orange-flower bread, of my own orange flowers.
>
> 1718 Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts 68 Wet it..with Orange-Flower
> Water, for the *Orange-Flower-Cakes.
>
> 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 461 *Orange-flower oil, is
> extracted by the distillation of the flowers of the
> orange-tree.
>
> Так что никуда апельсинам из 17 века не деться.
1. a. The fruit of a tree (see sense 2), a large globose many-celled berry (hesperidium) with sub-acid juicy pulp, enclosed in a tough rind externally of a bright reddish yellow (= orange) colour.
The common variety is variously called the China, coolie, Lisbon, Portugal, or sweet o.; the name China orange was especially common in 17–18th c. Other varieties or species are known as blood(-red), Malta or Maltese o., a red-pulped variety; Jaffa or Joppa o., a lemon-shaped and very sweet kind; navel o., a nearly seedless variety from Brazil, etc., having the rudiment of a second fruit imbedded in its apex; clove (in Ogilvie 1882), noble, or mandarin o. = mandarin; tangerine o..: see tangerine. The fruit of the Citrus Bigaradia is called the bitter, horned, or Seville o.; and that of the C. Bergamia, bergamot o. or bergamot.
13+ E.E. Allit. P. B. 1044 As orenge & oþer fryt. a1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 15 Citrangulum pomum, orenge. c1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 647/40 Hoc masuclum, orange. c1440 Promp. Parv. 371/1 Oronge, fruete. c1490 Paston Lett. III. 364 Halfe a hondryd orrygys. 1497 in Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1877) I. 330 For bering of the appill oreynzeis+fra the schip. 1538 Turner Libellus, Malum medicum, an oreche. c1550 Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) Sj, The sede of Orenche. 1587 Golding De Mornay x. 141 The rinde of the Orrendge is hot, and the meate within it is cold. 1598 Epulario Cij, Take the iuice of an Oringe, or else Vergice. 1698 A. Brand Emb. Muscovy to China 87 Grapes, Apples+China-Oranges,+and other fruits. 1796 Stedman Surinam II. xxix. 375, I found a crystal phial filled with essential oil of orange+extracted from the rind or peel of the oranges. c1830 Cries of York 18 Sweet China Oranges. St. Michael's Oranges I vend At one or two a penny. 1841 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) Pref. 48 In the 18th of Edward the first [1290] a large Spanish ship came to Portsmouth; out of the cargo of which the Queen bought+fifteen citrons and seven oranges [Poma de orenge]. 1866 Treas. Bot. 292 Oranges were unknown in Europe, or at all events in Italy, in the eleventh century, but were shortly afterwards carried westward by the Moors. Ibid., The Noble or Mandarin Orange is a small flattened and deep orange+it is exceedingly rich and sweet. 1870 Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 179 The rind of the orange yields by distillation a fragrant oil much used in perfumery.
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