| 单词 | dance of death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDance of Death c. Dance of Death: an allegorical representation of Death leading men of all ranks and conditions in the dance to the grave: a very common subject of pictorial representation during the middle ages. Also called Dance of Macabre, French danse macabre: see Littré. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > dance of Dance of Deathc1430 Dance of Macabrec1430 Totentanz1789 dance macabre1841 c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. The which daunce at sainct innocentes Portrayed is with all the surplusage. c1430 J. Lydgate Daunce Machabree Prol. Death fyrst speaketh vnto the Pope, and after to euery degree as foloweth. c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 591 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 242 For and we nowe in deathes daunce stode, To hell shoulde we go, with horrible vengeaunce. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clvi. f. lxxxvv But deth yt is to all persones egall, lastlye tooke hym in his dymme daunce whan he had ben Kyng...xlvii. yeres. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 378 The dance of Death..the Picture of death leading all estates. 1833 J. Dallaway Disc. Archit. Eng. (Stanf.) 137 The Dance of Macabre (Holbein's Dance of Death) was painted on the walls. < as lemmas |
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