英语词汇deacon porter-s hat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	deacon porter-s hat
词源	Deacon Porter’s hat. A tasty sweet pudding named after An- drew W. Porter, a trustee of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, whose stovepipe hat was similar in shape to the pudding mold. Holyoke students gave the pudding its name in 1837, and it became traditional to serve it every Febru- ary 28 to honor the birthday of Mary Lyon, the college’s founder.
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