Also 7 Stras-, Strawsborough, Strasbrow, 7– Strasburgh, Strasbourg. [G. Strassburg, Fr. Strasbourg.] The name of the principal town of Alsace, used attrib. in the names of various articles.
Strasburg embroidery (see quot.), S. finch (see quot.). S. linen, a kind of linen imported from Strasburg. S. match, an aromatic match for fumigating wines. S. onion (see quot.). S. pie, a pie made of fatted goose liver: see PÂTÉ 1. S. turpentine, turpentine obtained from the Silver Fir Abies Picea.
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 426. Roman Work. Also known as … *Strasbourg Embroidery,… and differing but slightly from Richelieu Guipure.
1815. Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., IX. 538. *Strasburgh Finch. Fringilla argentoratensis.… Found in the neighbourhood of Strasburgh, where it goes by the name of the Gyntel.
1642. Rates of Merchandizes, 40. *Strasborough or Hamborow linnen.
1657. Acts of Interregn. (1911), II. 1215. Linnen Cloth called … Strasborough or Hamborough Linnen.
1682. Privil. Cit. Lond., Scavage Tables, 52. Strasbrow Linnen.
1851. Butler, Wine-dealer, etc. 27. The *Strasbourg, or aromatic matches, are to be preferred for wines.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Cepa Cepa oblonga. The *Strasburgh Onion. Ibid., The best Onions for keeping are the Strasburgh kind, which is an oval-shap’d Bulb.
1838. Thackeray, Yellowplush (1865), 27. He sent me out … for wot’s called a *Strasbug-pie—in French, a ‘patty defau graw.’
1869. H. S. Leigh, Carols of Cockayne, 169.
| Turtle and salmon and Strasbourg pie, | |
| Pippins and cheese were there; | |
| And the bibulous Alderman wink’d his eye, | |
| For the sherris was old and rare. |
1687. J. Smith, Art Painting, xix. (ed. 2), 91. Take good *Strasburg Turpentine, and warm it.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 659.
