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单词 letter-go
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letter-go
letter-go n. now rare (a) a person who lets something go; (b) Scottish humorous (in form lettergae) a person who leads the singing of a choir or congregation, a precentor (after quot. 1718).
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a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 234 in Wks. (1640) III A carelesse letter-goe Of Mony.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 19 The Letter-gae of hally Rhime, Sat up at the Boord head.
1761 W. Forbes Domine Deposed (new ed.) i. 3 Quite other thoughts our lettergae begins to foster.
1826 Monthly Mag. Apr. 365 The law will charge the said letter-go of the said pistol.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. xi. 118 There was no sae mony hairs on the warlock's face as there's on Letter-Gae's ain at this moment.
1843 J. Watson in Whistle-Binkie 5th Ser. 49 The lettergae, tryin' new tunes.
1931 J. M. Edmonds tr. Solon in Elegy & Iambus I. 117 An Athenian of the tribe of Salaminaphetae or Letters-go of Salamis.
1931 A. M. Williams Bundle of Yarns 17 The 103rd psalm was sung again and again by the choir, the precentor acting, for the time being, as lettergae.
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