| 单词 | christmas king |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChristmas King Christmas King n. rare (now historical) a man chosen to preside over revelries during the Christmas period; = King of Christmas n. at king n. Phrases 3a(b); cf. Christmas Lord n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > presiding > at Christmas festivities Lord of Misrule1491 Christmas King1537 Christmas Lord1555 Christmas Prince1598 lieutenant1655 1537 T. Dorset Let. 13 Mar. (Cleo. E.iv/1) f. 131v He saide in his sermone that god hathe brought the truthe of his worde to light and princis be the ministeris of it to gyue comaundement that it shold goo forward and yet is no thynge regarded and make of hym' but a Cristmas kyng. 1939 ELH 6 89 The winter festivities were, as usual, built up around the age-long institution of the mock-king, Christmas-king, or Twelfth-Night-king. 2001 in C. Humphrey Politics of Carnival (rear cover) Those festive occasions on which a temporary and dynamic upside-down world of boy-bishops and Christmas kings was created. < as lemmas |
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