mirliton

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɜːlɪˌtɒn/    美 /ˈmɪɹləˌtɑn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.
    — To start your mirliton plant, buy the fruit in a produce-oriented market in spring and plant it in full sunlight in fertile, well-drained soil, leaving the stem half of the fruit out of the ground.
  2. The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone.
    — In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane.
  3. An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez.
    — Headwear: This was either the colpack or the mirliton. Regiments No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 wore the former; 5, 6, 7 and 8 the latter.
  4. A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800.
    — […] Have moulds prepared as for the mirlitons of Rouen; fill them and finish in the same manner.

词形变化

mirlitons plural

词源

From French. Coined as a nonce to advertise a new women's bonnet, mirliton came to be applied to any trifle or trinket before acquiring several specific meanings. Compare the English word folderol.
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