| 词汇 | ambergris |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： late 15c., from M.Fr. ambre gris "gray amber" (see amber), "a wax-like substance of ashy colour, found floating in tropical seas, and as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm-whale. Used in perfumery, and formerly in cookery" [OED]. King Charles II's favorite dish was said to be eggs and ambergris [Macauley, "History of England"]. Fr. gris is from Frank. *gris (cf. Du. grijs, O.H.G. gris; see gray). "Praise is like ambergris; a little whiff of it, by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to his nose, it is a stink and strikes you down." [Pope, c.1720] |
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