| 词汇 | pie |
| 词源 | pie. Pie is an old English word of obscure origin, first record- ed in 1275. Wrote Harriet Beecher Stowe in Old Town Folks (1869): “The pie is an English institution, which, planted on American soil, forthwith ran rampant and burst forth into an untold variety of genera and species. Not merely the old tradi- tional mince pie, but a thousand strictly American seedlings from the main stock, evinced the power of American house- wives to adapt old institutions to new uses. Pumpkin pies, cranberry pies, huckleberry pies, peach, pear and plum pies, custard pies, apple pies, Marlborough-pudding pies—pies with top crusts and without—pies adorned with all sorts of fanciful flutings and architectural strips laid across and around, and otherwise varied, attested the boundless fertility of the femi- nine mind, when let loose in a given direction.” |
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