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单词 feu de joie
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feu de joien.

/fʊ də ˈʒwɑː/
Forms: Also plural feux de joie.
Etymology: French; literally ‘fire of joy’.
1. A bonfire; also figurative. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > bonfire as token of
bonfirea1450
fire of joy1554
feu de joie1609
tandle1788
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > immense > for celebration
fire of joy1554
feu de joie1609
tandle1788
bale-fire1810
joy-fire1845
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 11 The Iesuites..would..haue been pleasant Spectators thereof, as at a Feu-de-ioy.
1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 159 To illuminate our feux de joye.
1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge vii The news that the Home Farm was on fire, which he announced as though it were a feu de joie.]
2. (See quot. 1867.)
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] > military salute expressing rejoicing
feu de joie1728
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > other tokens of
palmOE
peal1509
illumination1797
feu de joie1801
confetti1815
street decoration1846
piñata1868
Venetian mast1883
serpentin1894
ticker tape1902
society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > salute > by discharge of artillery
peal1509
salvo1719
feu de joie1801
1728 Mem. Eng. Officer 35 Sunday the 17th Day of August, the Army was drawn out, as most others as well as my self apprehended, in order to a feux de Joye.
1801 Sporting Mag. 19 146 They had fired a feu-de-joye opposite their Major's house.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Feu-de-joie, a salute fired by musketry on occasions of public rejoicing, so that it should pass from man to man rapidly and steadily down one rank and up the other, giving one long continuous sound.
1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest viii. 174 A sudden fusillade of shots brought us to our feet..; it proved to be a wedding in the village, which the guests were celebrating in traditional style with a feu-de-joie.
3. transferred and figurative.
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1658 J. Robinson Endoxa i. 10 Unexpected calamities will quench the feudejoy of a long fore-set gratulation.
1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 43 Then his heart, with rapture dancing, Kindled to a feu-de-joye.
1935 Punch 6 Nov. 526/1 I sent on as next turn the Mystery Feu de Joie [sc. a firework].
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 44/2 But the book remains a feu de joie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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