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institution

2019年09月06日 | 英語の原書を読む
Reader's Digest 7/8月号 "America the TASTY" からの引用です。
Alabama
Signature dish: Chicken in white sauce.
During the 1920's Alabanians flocked to railroad worker "Big Bob" Gibson's backyard on the weekends for hickory-smoked chicken smothered in his own vinegar-and-manyonnaise sauce. His Decantur restaurant and his chicken and white sauce are still institutions.
3/7/2014 に取り上げた "institution" は人に対する言葉でしたが、上記の "institutions" は人ではありませんね。 "institutions" を辞書で再度確認します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: informal A well-established and familiar person or custom.: Dress codes are a British institution, and the British love their uniforms.

・Collins Dictionary: An institution is a custom or system that is considered an important or typical feature of a particular society or group, usually because it has existed for a long time.: I believe in the institution of marriage.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a custom or tradition that has existed for a long time and is accepted as an important part of a particular society: the venerable institution of marriage
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