单词 | abbey labourer |
释义 | > as lemmasabbey labourer abbey labourer n. †(a) an industrious monk (opposed to abbey-lubber n.) (obsolete); (b) a labourer in the service of an abbey (now historical). ΚΠ 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 28 Abbey-labourers, not Abbey-lubbers like their Successours in after-Ages. 1752 in J. L. Chester Marriage, Baptismal, & Burial Reg. St. Peter's Westm. (1876) 384 Robert Reeves, an Abbey labourer; died the 21st, aged 53. 2009 S. Gregory et al. King Arthur's Bones 10 He was reassured to see a couple of the abbey labourers keeping watch over the entrance. < as lemmas |
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