| 词汇 | beanfeast |
| 词源 | beanfeast. No one is sure about beanfeast’s derivation. The annual dinner that British employers gave their workers in the 1800s may be so named because beans were served at the feast or because a “bean goose,” a goose “with a beak like a horse bean,” was part of the fare. On the other hand, bean here may come from bene, “prayer, solicitation,” because charitable col- lections were made at the feasts. |
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