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单词 forefathers' day
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forefathers' day
An ancestor, a progenitor. Chiefly plural. forefathers' day (U.S.): the anniversary of the day on which the first settlers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 501 Feddest with thi fresche blode owre forfadres in derknesse.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5464 Iacob..went out of þis wreched werld, And til his forfaders fard.
c1450 Chester Pl. xii. 163 Our forfather ouer~comen was..to doe evill.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dviiiv Their fore fathers were baptised in the reed see.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 17 Our Forefathers before the Floud.
1751 T. Gray Elegy iv. 6 The rude Fore fathers of the hamlet.
1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 120 Measures which they and their fore-fathers, time out of mind had employed.
1848 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 147 It is Fore-fathers' Day, you remember.
figurative and in extended use.1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 35 Conceit is still deriude, From some forefather griefe. View more context for this quotation1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables i. 6 It is a great thing to possess improved breeds of animals in the place of their forefathers.
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