Quorn

专有名词
中文释义
英 /kwɔːn/    美 /k(w)ɔɹn/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire. with-definite-article
    — The House of More has a pretty Georgian paneling through most of the rooms, but in the dining room the walls are level and painted a dull stone color. […] Some photographs of the Quorn hung over the mantelpiece, and five or six drab ancestors filled up the remaining space.
  2. A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616).
  3. A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia.
  4. A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
    — It is now easier for a vegetarian to eat sufficient protein because of products such as Quorn, tofu and textured vegetable protein.

词源

Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) + dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.
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