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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Banboree

English answer:

Banbury Cake

Added to glossary by Martina Pokupec (X)
Sep 25, 2012 09:12
11 yrs ago
English term

Banboree

English Marketing Cosmetics, Beauty Hair dyes
This is about a hair dye base for covering grays.
"Target: shinny, melted chocolate - hints of blue, gold and orange tones as seen in a banboree."
I have apsolutely no idea what this could refer to. So i highly appreciate your help!
Responses
1 Banbury Cake
4 Banburee SPA

Discussion

dandamesh Sep 25, 2012:
@Alison I saw the same link and that's what I called cooking stuff in my answer to Tony, blue/grey as a pan
Alison MacG Sep 25, 2012:
bain-marie? in view of the reference to melted chocolate:

The ideal equipment to melt chocolate is a bain marie ...
http://www.wheat-free.org/how-to-melt-chocolate.html

See also:
My favorite anglicization is 'bamboree', or 'bambourine' ... these words were used synonymously to describe a large aluminium cooking vessel ... the French 'bain-Marie' had been anglicized
http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/showthread.php/318...
Martina Pokupec (X) (asker) Sep 25, 2012:
Thank you All for your answers and comments. I left the original text together with "shinny" because I also suspected that the word was misspelled. I think it's the cake, but I'll wait to hear back from the client.
Charles Davis Sep 25, 2012:
Jamboree, anyone? Scout uniforms? (Sorry, not serious. No idea.)
Tony M Sep 25, 2012:
Phonetically I expected 'Banbury' — but I'm wondering if they meant 'Burberry', though I'm not suite sure if those colours would really fit?
Sarah Bessioud Sep 25, 2012:
@ Martina What language was the original text written in, or in which country is the company based?
Catharine Cellier-Smart Sep 25, 2012:
@Martina Is the mistake "shinny" in your original document? If so it seems more likely there's a mistake in "banboree" too. To me it sounds as if someone has written "banboree" phonetically when they in fact mean something else, although what that could be I don't know.

Responses

1 hr
Selected

Banbury Cake

this is a pure guess that the spelling is wrong and it's referring to the colours in this cake

http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=banbury cake&hl=en&sa=X&biw=12...

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-09-25 10:14:47 GMT)
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You'll have to go back to the client as obviously there is some misspelling here with "shinny"=shiny already spotted by CCS

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Note added at 7 days (2012-10-02 09:31:03 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have helped; certainly an interesting comparison, hair colour and cake! BTW "Banbury" on its own is OK in UK English.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : Really? 'blue'?? / Well, I'm all in favour of anything to do with food ;-)
10 mins
it's only a guess but there is a "hint of blue" in the darks. Very dark hair described as "blue-black" and this is chocolate-brown colour with other tones so, in terms of colours it fits:-)
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18 mins

Banburee SPA

it's a wellness resort and SPA

http://www.sawadee.com/hotel/samui/banburee/
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : But how does that relate to its use here as a countable noun, and in the context of colours?
10 mins
sorry, I thought it may refer to an SPA treatment. Bamboree is a cooking stuff, then, a sort of blu/ grey I think
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