| 释义 |
voidee Now only Hist.|ˈvɔɪdiː|
Forms: 4–5 voide, 6 voyde; 5–6 (9) voidee (7 voydee); 5 voidie, 6 voidy(e, voydye.
[a. AF. *voidé or *voidée, pa. pple. masc. or fem. of voider void v., with reference app. to the withdrawing from a hall or chamber of those who were not to sleep there.]
A collation consisting of wine accompanied by spices, comfits, or the like, partaken of before retiring to rest or the departure of guests; a repast of this nature following upon a feast or fuller meal; a parting dish. (Cf. void n.2)
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 674 Ther nys no more, but here efter soone, The voide dronke and traueres drawe anon, Gan euery wight þat hadde nought to done More in þat place out of þat chamber gon. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 13 Withyn an owre the Kyng askid the voidee, and drank, the travers yn the chambure edraw, and every man depairtid and went to rist. 1494in Lett. & Papers Rich. III. & Hen. VII. (Rolls) I. 390 When they wer dry in their beddes they were revested.., and soo departed to the chappell, where they had spices, and their voidie. 1533Coronation of Anne Boleyn (1884) 33 There was a voyde of spyce plates and wyne. 1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 262 That night there was a greate bancket..and after that, twoo riche maskes..And after that, a voydye. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 99 When they had daunced, then came in a costly banket and a voidy of spices, and so departed to their lodgyng. 1587Holinshed Chron. III. 849/1 The king and the ambassadours were serued at a banket with two hundred and sixtie dishes, and after that a voidee of spices with sixtie spice plates. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 19 He..made him the most sumptuous Feast..that ever was seen before,..and after that a costly Voydee, and after that a Maske.
attrib.1881Rossetti King's Trag. xci, And the King paused, but he did not speak. Then he called for the Voidee-cup. |