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† ˈevesong Obs.
[f. eve n.1 + song.]
1. = evensong 1 a; also gen. (perh. transf.) a song sung at eventide.
a1225Ancr. R. 22 Efter euesong anonriht siggeð ower Placebo. c1290Lives Saints (1887) 66 He bi-gan one saume of euesongue. c1300St. Brandon 214 The foweles tho hit eve was, bigonne here evesong. 1389in Eng. Gilas (1870) 121 Þe secunde belle of þe Euesong of seint Peter. 1455E. Clere in Four C. Eng. Lett. 5 He seith matyns of Our Lady and evesong.
2. Short for ‘evensong-bell’.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 396 Bargeynes and beuereges bygunne to aryse, And setyn so til euesong rang.
3. attrib.
c1315Shoreham 87 Of the crouche he was do At evesanges oure. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 243 Þe bataille dured from underne of þe day to eue song tyme. 1460Lybeaus Disc. (Kölb.) 1424 From þe our of prime Till hit was evesong time To fiȝte þey wer þro. |