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单词 tinley
释义 tinley
variant of tindle n. dial.
1788Gentl. Mag. July 602/2 It is a custom with the Papists in some parts of the kingdom, upon the eve of All Souls, to illuminate some of their grounds, by bearing round them straw..kindled into a blaze. The ceremony..is called a Tinley; and the account vulgarly given of it..is, that it is meant emblematically to signify the lighting of souls out of Purgatory.1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1414.
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