Cambridge
(ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ)
the name of a university town in England, used attrib., as Cambridge blue, a light blue; Cambridge calf (see quot. 1895); Cambridge chimes, the composition of Joseph Jowett and William Crotch, first employed in 1793 at the Church of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge; Cambridge coprolite, greensand Geol. (see quots. 1881, 1882); Cambridge roller Agric. (see quot. 1954); Cambridge sausage, a variety of sausage.
| 1580 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1961) LIII. 194 Robert Kent prest, a cambridge man borne. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 108 Your thoroughbred Londoner..grumbling over..his thin milk and his Cambridge butter. 1840 Dickens Let. 1 Feb. (1969) 17 The Cambridge sassages of right down English Manafacter. 1850 Denison Clock & Watch-m. 226 A clock made for a nobleman a few years ago, who intended to have the Cambridge chimes. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Book of Table 94 It is notorious that what has been called Cambridge butter is a mixture of foreign butters. 1881 Spon's Encycl. Industr. Arts IV. 1260 The most valuable beds of the mineral in this country are in the Upper Greensand formation, lying chiefly in Cambridgeshire, and merging into Buckinghamshire. These are known as ‘Cambridge’ coprolites. 1882 Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 809 The so-called ‘Cambridge Greensand’—a bed about 1 foot thick lying at the base of the Chalk of Cambridge, and largely worked for phosphate of lime derived from coprolites and bones. 1883 Cassell's Fam. Mag. Mar. 206/2 A huge wooden spoon, ornamented with bows of Cambridge blue. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xviii. 262 About one pound of seed is sown per acre..distributed from a sowing-box placed behind a Cambridge roller. 1895 Windsor Mag. I. 403/2 Knickerbockers of dark blue velveteen trimmed with Cambridge blue. 1895 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Short Hist. Bookbinding 20 Cambridge Calf.—Fine and dark sprinkled calf of two tints, a square panel being left in centre of sides. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 9/2 The bulky little volume..in its Cambridge-blue cover. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 4/6 As the ‘Cambridge Chimes’ at St. Stephen's strike 2 p.m. the King will arrive to open Parliament. 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 227 A tin of Cambridge sausages. 1954 Gloss. Terms Agric. Mach. (B.S.I.) 12 Cambridge roller, a roller consisting of loosely mounted ring segments each usually about 3 in. wide and tapering at the periphery to a narrow rim. 1970 Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 1 Feb. 40/1 The finest breakfast I have ever had..finnan haddock, Cambridge sausages, York ham. |