| 单词 | cornbaby | 
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : corn-babyn. > as lemmascorn-baby   A rude semblance of a human figure made out of the last handful of corn cut on the harvest-field, and dressed as a female, which formerly played a part in the ceremonial of the kirn or harvest-home, and was afterwards often hung up on the farmer's kitchen wall until the next harvest, when its place was taken by a new one. Also called  kirn-doll or  kirn-dolly,  kirn-maiden,  harvest-queen, and, in books, after a mistaken suggestion of Brand (quot. 1777),  corn-baby. In the most usual form, the cluster of ears formed the head of the figure, while part of the stalks were plaited into two arms, and the rest expanded as a body in skirts, the whole being decorated with ribbons or gaily dressed in doll's clothes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > 			[noun]		 > model of a human woman1509 manikin1535 malkinc1565 man1600 kirn-baby1777 maid1794 knack1813 snowman1827 moggie1896 1777    J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. xxxi. 307  				Kern Baby..the northern Word is plainly a Corruption of Corn Baby or Image, as is the Kern or Churn Supper of Corn Supper. 1787    F. Grose Provinc. Gloss.  				Kern-baby, an image dressed up with corn, carried before the reapers to their mell~supper, or harvest home. 1813    H. Ellis in  Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. 		(rev. ed.)	 I. 422 		(note)	  				An old woman..informed me that, not half a century ago, they used every where [in Northumberland] to dress up something, similar to the figure above described, at the end of Harvest, which was called a Harvest Doll, or Kern Baby. 1826    in  W. Hone Every-day Bk. 		(1827)	 II. 1166  				A sort of kern baby is placed on the top at front of the load [of wheat]. 1846    M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. 		(new ed.)	 Legendary Div. II. 375  				The corn-baby or kirn-dolly. 1866    W. Henderson Notes Folk Lore Northern Counties 66  				When the sickle is laid down and the last sheaf set on end..an image is at once hoisted on a pole..crowned with wheat ears and dressed up in gay finery, a white frock and coloured ribbons being its conventional attire. The whole group [of reapers] circle round this harvest queen or Kernbaby, curtseying to her, and dancing and singing. 1868    J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial.  				Kern baby, an image, or possibly only a small sheaf of the newly cut corn, gaily dressed up and decorated with clothes, ribbons, flowers, &c. < see also as lemmas  | 
	
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