cocktail: [19] The origins of the word cocktail are mysterious. It first appeared (in America) in the first decade of the 19th century, roughly contemporary with cocktail meaning ‘horse with a cocked tail’ – that is, one cut short and so made to stick up like a cock’s tail – but whether the two words are connected, and if so, how the drink came to be named after such a horse, are not at all clear.
cocktail (n.)
first attested 1806; H.L. Mencken lists seven versions of its origin, perhaps the most durable traces it to French coquetier "egg-cup" (15c.; in English cocktay). In New Orleans, c. 1795, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary (and inventor of Peychaud bitters) held Masonic social gatherings at his pharmacy, where he mixed brandy toddies with his own bitters and served them in an egg-cup. On this theory, the drink took the name of the cup. Used from 1920s of any mix of substances (fruit, Molotov). Cocktail party first attested 1928.
例文
1. He had very kindly asked me to the cocktail party that evening.
彼は私をその夜のカクテルパーティーに招待してくれた。
2.Let 's meet in the cocktail lounge at the Hilton.
ヒルトンホテルのバーで待ち合わせましょう。
3.On arrival,guests are offered wine or a champagne cocktail .
各ゲストが来場すると、ワインやシャンパンカクテルをプレゼントする人がいます。
4.Children and guns are a potentially lethal cocktail .