| 单词 | holly-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasholly-boy holly-boy n. an effigy of a boy made of holly, which (together with an ivy-girl) figured in certain village sports in East Kent on Shrove Tuesday. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > effigies in Shrove-tide festivities ivy-girl1736 holly-boy1779 1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 137 The girls..were assembled in a crowd and burning an uncouth effigy, which they called an Holly Boy, and which it seems they had stolen from the boys. < as lemmas |
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