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tansu
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ??.
Noun
tansu (plural tansus or tansu)
- A traditional portable chest from Japan.
Anagrams
- Satun, astun, aunts, suant, tsuna, tuans, tunas
Japanese
Romanization
tansu
- R?maji transcription of ???
Yogad
Noun
tansu
- copper
tansu From the web:
tansy
English
Etymology
From Old French tanesie, tanoisie, tanasie, tanaisie, from Medieval Latin tanacetum, atanacetum, attested since the 8th century, of obscure origin, speculated from Ancient Greek ???????? (athanasía, “immortality”) owing to hallucinations from the thujone in the plant, else from taenia (“tapeworm”) due to its primary use against parasites by which reason it is called in Arabic ???????? ??????? (?aš?ša ad-d?d, literally “worm herb”), otherwise a Berber borrowing like tagetes.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?tanzi/
- (US) IPA(key): /?tæn.zi/
Noun
tansy (countable and uncountable, plural tansies)
- A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 365:
- The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 365:
- (uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
- 1662, Diary of Samuel Pepys:
- I had a pretty dinner for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.
- 1662, Diary of Samuel Pepys:
Derived terms
- double tansy
- tansy mustard (Descurainia sophia)
Translations
See also
- pennyroyal
- savin
References
Anagrams
- -nasty, Ansty, Nasty, Santy, Yants, antsy, nasty
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