anchovette
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anchovy + -ette; probably coined as a brand name, but compare French anchovette (“Engraulis ringens, a species of anchovy found off the coasts of Chile and Peru”), from Spanish anchoveta[1].
Noun
[edit]anchovette (uncountable)
- A paste made from anchovies, used as a spread.
- 1925, Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales for the Year 1925[2], Sydney, published 1927, page 184:
- Lunch was eaten at about 1.15 p.m., the food consisting of anchovette paste, bread and butter, tea, and, in one case, treacle.
- 1955, Patrick White, chapter 16, in The Tree of Man[3], New York: Viking, page 258:
- She did just think about her home sometimes, eating her anchovette sandwich, for instance, in the half-hour she took off for lunch.
- 1986, Carolyn Meyer, chapter 7, in Voices of South Africa,[4], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 126:
- Breakfast was lighter in this English household. […] Elizabeth and I had toast and anchovette—anchovy paste.