英语词汇apple-pie order的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

apple-pie order. One old story holds that New England housewives were so meticulous and tidy when making their apple pies—carefully cutting thin slices of apples, methodically arranging them in rows inside the pie, making sure that the pinches joining the top and bottom crusts were perfectly even, etc.—that the expression apple-pie order arose for prim and precise orderliness. A variant on the yarn has an early Ameri- can housewife baking seven pies every Monday and arranging them neatly on shelves, one for every day of the week in strict order. Nice stories, but the term apple-pie order is probably British in origin, dating back to at least the early 17th century. It may be a corruption of the French nappes-pliées, folded linen (neatly folded) or cap-a-pie, “from head to foot.” Yet no use of either nappes-pliées order or cap-a-pie order appears in English. “Alpha beta order” has also been suggested, but seems unlikely. The true source of the term must still be considered a mystery, the matter far from in apple-pie order.

词汇	apple-pie order
词源	apple-pie order. One old story holds that New England housewives were so meticulous and tidy when making their apple pies—carefully cutting thin slices of apples, methodically arranging them in rows inside the pie, making sure that the pinches joining the top and bottom crusts were perfectly even, etc.—that the expression apple-pie order arose for prim and precise orderliness. A variant on the yarn has an early Ameri- can housewife baking seven pies every Monday and arranging them neatly on shelves, one for every day of the week in strict order. Nice stories, but the term apple-pie order is probably British in origin, dating back to at least the early 17th century. It may be a corruption of the French nappes-pliées, folded linen (neatly folded) or cap-a-pie, “from head to foot.” Yet no use of either nappes-pliées order or cap-a-pie order appears in English. “Alpha beta order” has also been suggested, but seems unlikely. The true source of the term must still be considered a mystery, the matter far from in apple-pie order.
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