| 词汇 | picnic |
| 词源 | picnic. First recorded in Lord Chesterfield’s Letters (1748), the word picnic comes to us from the French pique-nique, which is a century or so older. Pique-nique itself is a reduplica- tion on piquer, “to pick.” |
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