A
in A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
January 2004; published online January 2004.
Reference Entry. Subjects: customs and traditions. 21 words.
The first letter of the modern English alphabet was known as ailm [pine] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland.
A
in A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
Published online January 2012.
Reference Entry. Subjects: travel and holiday. 26 words.
“A Correct, Hermeneutic Reading”: Fantasies of a Constitutional Coup and the Promotion of Indigenous Rights
in Consent of the Damned
November 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: society and culture. 13129 words.
After the 1976 coup, the military regime immediately set about trying to show that it was a defender of human rights. This task involved demonstrating that Argentina continued to adhere to a set of...
à la
in The Oxford Companion to Food
January 2006; published online January 2013.
Reference Entry. Subjects: cookery, food, and drink. 746 words.
a French phrase which introduces a name indicating how a dish has been prepared: thus, Sole à la normande, Potage
à la carte
in A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
Published online January 2012.
Reference Entry. Subjects: travel and holiday. 78 words.
1. Restaurant menu from which the consumer can choose freely, paying for individual items, contrasting with table d’hôte which is
à la carte bar
in A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
Published online January 2012.
Reference Entry. Subjects: travel and holiday. 7 words.
à la mode
Overview page. Subjects: medicine and health — cookery, food, and drink.
Bœuf à la mode is beef braised in the classic way; also (in USA) fruit or other sweet pie served with ice cream.
“A Space within the Revolution”
in The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society
March 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: society and culture. 8779 words.
This chapter examines the removal of religious intolerance in Cuba during the 1990s. This removal was the result of a rethinking of the Cuban revolutionary project that followed the collapse of the...
“A Sponge Soaking up All the Money”: Alcohol, Taverns, Vinaterías, and the Bourbon Reforms in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala
in Distilling the Influence of Alcohol
October 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: society and culture. 9798 words.
When the Royal Monopoly on Alcohol was established in 1755 in the Kingdom of Guatemala, a subunit of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it was the Town Council of the capital city, Antigua, rather than a...
A1
in A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
Published online January 2012.
Reference Entry. Subjects: travel and holiday. 49 words.
1. First class. In Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, the term applies to vessels built to trade in sheltered waters