单词 | fourth-of-julyism |
释义 | > as lemmasFourth-of-Julyism b. esp. with ellipsis of ‘day’. the Fourth (of July) U.S., the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; also attributive. Also quasi-n. in plural. Hence Fourth-of-Julyism. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc. day of truce1486 Evil May Dayc1590 Bonfire Night1661 Pope Day1769 Pope Night1773 the Fourth (of July)1779 Town Taking Day1788 Independence Day1791 Independent Day1803 Guy Fawkes day1825 Bastille Day1837 Trafalgar Day1837 Turkey Day1870 Canada Day1882 Juneteenth1890 flag-day1894 Patriots' Day1894 Remembrance Day1895 twelfth1896 Quatorze Juillet1899 quatorze1915 Armistice Day1918 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 VJ-day1944 Commonwealth Day1958 the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > specific day of a month fourth1891 1777 Jrnls. Continental Congr. (U.S.) 8 625 There is due..a bill for material, workmanship, &c. furnished for the fire works on the 4 July, the sum of 102 69/90 dollars.] 1779 New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. Coll. VI. 317 Toasts were drank, to wit:..the Fourth of July, '76: The memorable era of American Independence. 1807 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) II. 369 From these reflections..we may collect some good fourth-of-July ideas. 1827 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. viii. 121 We did not celebrate the ‘glorious Fourth’ here. 1830 S. Breck Recoll. (1877) 91 On the Fourth, being a national holiday, there was a great parade on the Common. 1834 Southern Literary Messenger 1 156 I do not know that the celebration of a Fourth of July in a country village has ever been thought worthy of appearing in print. 1853 Southern Literary Messenger 19 473/1 Fourth-of-Julyisms fled to the stump or the national anniversary barbecues. 1854 W. G. Simms Southward Ho! xiii. 253 Ordinarily admirable, our dinner on the glorious Fourth was worthy of the occasion. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xi. 76 No more electin' presidents.., no more Fourths,..no more nothin. 1874 B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. i. 183 A Fourth-of-Julyism has somehow become an object of contempt. 1888 J. R. Lowell Prose Wks. (1890) VI. 202 This is what may be called the Fourth of July period of our history. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 74 As I write I picture, here in my lonely study, bright Fourths of June. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 6/1 The amounts passing through on the 4ths of the months for 1893. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xiii. 206 It reminds me..of a Fourth I helped to celebrate down in Salvador. 1967 D. Francis Blood Sport viii. 94 I'm glad you could take me at such short notice, with the Fourth coming up this weekend. < as lemmas |
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