| 单词 | evening song |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevening song evening song n. (a) Christian Church = evensong n. 1 (now rare); (b) a song or succession of songs sung in the evening, esp. by a bird. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun] evensongOE evesonga1250 evening prayer1539 evening song?1548 evening service1561 vesper1611 vespera1640 vespertine1651 vesper service1797 ?1548 L. Shepherd Pore Helpe (new ed.) sig. A.vii These babes..fayne would haue the mattens And eueninge songe [?1548 (ed. 1) eueinge songe] also In Englishe. 1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks i. 20 The fatall owle high mounted at sun set Does not the balefull evening song repeat. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor XXV Serm. xiv. 188 Then it passed from a day of Religion to be a day of order, and from fasting till night, to fasting till evening-song, and evening-song to be sung about twelve a clock. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. §61 Untill the Evening song be finished, for then the Ecclesiastical solemnity is over. 1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 741 The Birds shall cease to tune their Ev'ning Song. 1758 W. Shenstone in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems Several Hands V. 42 When the bell rung For evening-song, His dinner scarce was ended. 1996 P. C. Doherty Tournament of Murders 5 ‘Even though the day be ever so long,’ the landlord intoned. ‘At last the bell rings for evening song.’ 2011 G. Shields Eternal iii. 34 Blackbirds were beginning their evening song. < as lemmas |
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