sand cookie

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词形变化

sand cookies 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Name given to various types of shortbread.

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    1945, Adrian Wilson, letter dated 31 March, 1945, in Joyce Lancaster Wilson (ed.), Two Against the Tide: A Conscientious Objector in World War II: Selected Letters, Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, p. 132, Some of the wives poured and served up civilized cookies such as I haven’t had for months. ([Your] sand cookies are out of this world, therefore excluded.)

  2. 2.

    Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida.

    美国
  3. 3.

    A mass of sand shaped to resemble a cookie by a child playing, similar to a mud pie.

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词源

Perhaps a calque of French sablé (“shortbread”) from sable (“sand”), because of the texture of the crumbs; cf. also Norwegian sandkake.

来源：wiktionary