单词 | egg-saturday |
释义 | > as lemmasEgg-Saturday Egg-Saturday n. the Saturday before Shrove Tuesday (Nares). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Saturday before Lent > [noun] Egg-Saturday1607 1607 Christian Prince in Misc. Ant. Angl. (1816) 68 On the sixt of february, beeing egge satterday, it pleased some gentlemen schollers in the towne to make a dauncing night of it..the next Tuesday following beeing shrovetuesday. a1645 R. Baker Theatrum Triumphans (1670) 37 One trick which he..seems to have learned..from Egge-Saturday in Oxford, to make diversity of meats with diversity of dressing. < as lemmas |
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