单词 | long vacation |
释义 | > as lemmaslong vacation long vacation n. (also with capital initials) British the three-month summer vacation taken by universities and (formerly) law courts; also attributive.So called to distinguish it from the Christmas and Easter vacations. ΚΠ 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D2v It beeing a long vacation, hee learned in the rowle all those mens names, and that they were men of indifferent wealth. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 93 When now the long Vacation's come, The noisie Hall and Theatres grown dumb. 1721 E. Ward Merry Travellers: Pt. I 1 That dull Time of Recreation, by Lawyers call'd, The Long Vacation. 1825 C. Thirlwall Lett. (1881) 85 A most delightful fortnight which I spent last long vacation at Cambridge. 1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 216 Such informal arrangements suffice to create a ‘Long Vacation Term’. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 6/1 Three of its members lacked formal legal education, and had been told to get the subject up in the long vacation. long vacation b. long vacation (see long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > formal > legal or university voiding1468 summer vacation1507 justitium1583 long vacation1631 vacants1647 long1848 1631 T. Adams in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 150 The arabick Lecture..to be entred upon after that long vacation following. 1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 160 In every long vacation all the bills..and other pleadings are to be taken from the common files. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 93 When now the long Vacation's come, The noisie Hall and Theatres grown dumb. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 215 In ye Long-Vacation [he] made an Excursion. 1825 C. Thirlwall Lett. (1881) 85 A most delightful fortnight which I spent last long vacation at Cambridge. 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol v When season, reading-party, and long vacation were all over,..much distressed was the Oxford world [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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