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单词 gang week
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Gang Weekn.

Brit. /ˈɡaŋ wiːk/, U.S. /ˈɡæŋ ˌwik/
Forms: see gang n. and week n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gang n., week n.
Etymology: < gang n. + week n.; for the semantic motivation see Gang Day n. In later use perhaps after Gang Day n. Compare German Gangwoche (18th cent.), Swedish gång-vecka (17th cent.); also Old Icelandic gangdaga-vika , Swedish gång-dags-vecka . Compare Gangtide n.
Now historical.
Rogation week, during which the Gang Days fall. Cf. Gang Day n.
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Gang WeekOE
Rogation Week1519
Procession week1528
cross-week1530
OE Ælfric Homily: Sermo ad Populum (Corpus Cambr. 188) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 417 We eac wurðiað wurðlice þone dæg on ðunresdæg on ðære gangwucan.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) xvi. 14 (rubric) Ðis sceal on þunresdæg innan þære gangwucan.
1517 in J. C. Cox Churchwardens' Accts. (1913) xvi. 213 Payde for ale for the Ryngers the gang weke and ye wytson wyke ijs.
1572 J. Field & T. Wilcox Admon. to Parl. (new ed.) sig. Bvjv We speake not of licenses graunted out of this courte, to marry in forbidden times, as in lent, in aduent, in the gang weke.
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. vi. 76 What meaneth else their decking of crosses in gang-weeke?
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Rogation week In the North of England it is called Gang week from the Ganging, or going on procession [etc.].
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Gang-week,..i.e. Walking-week, Rogation-week, when Processions are made to lustrate the Bounds of Parishes, &c.
a1785 H. Sanders Hist. & Antiq. Shenstone (1794) 23 At the time of the Reformation,..processions, which made part of the solemnity in the Gang week, were abolished.
1834 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. Dec. 615 From the circumstance of the cross being carried in these processions, it is frequently, in old accounts, called Cross-week, and in the northern parts of England, Gang-week.
1869 Once a Week 22 May 418 It would appear that the ancient ceremony observed on the Gang-days in the Gang-week, has fallen as low in estimation as the word Gang itself.
1920 F. Darwin Springtime & Other Ess. 100 The common milk-wort used to be called the Gang-flower because it blossoms in what our ancestors called Gang Week.
1950 Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 24 i. 36 Gang week at Kilkhampton was observed especially on the Monday in Rogation week and included a feast.
1996 ELH 63 260 Gang-week processions..or ‘beating the bounds’..took place on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Thursday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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