| 单词 | guy fawkes day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGuy Fawkes day (night) b. Guy Fawkes day (night), 5 Nov., the anniversary of the ‘Gunpowder plot’. Also elliptical. ΘΠ 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 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1430/2 ‘Guy Fawkes-day’, or, as they as often call it, ‘Pope-day’, is a holiday, and.., on account of its festivous enjoyment, is the greatest holiday of the season. 1833 J. Romilly Diary 5 Nov. in Cambridge Diary (1967) i. 41 Webb (the W. merchant's) long dull son dined in hall with me being Guy Fawkes day. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. iv. 63 Suddenly he heard the cry, ‘Remember, remember the Fifth of November..,’ and, almost before he had time to realize it was the dreaded Guy Fawkes, a band of..boys..held close to the window a nodding Guy. 1970 Times 4 Nov. 2/2 The reserves of stamina the [fire]men have to build up for Guy Fawkes night each year. < as lemmas |
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