| 单词 | maiden feast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaiden feast maiden feast n. the feast after cutting the maiden (see sense A. 8). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > harvest-home feast kirn1777 kirn-supper1777 maiden feast1797 churn-supper1801 kirn-feast1846 hay-home supper1860 churn-getting1866 1797 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIX. 550 It was, till very lately, the custom to give what was called a Maiden Feast, upon the finishing of the harvest. 1824 Edinb. Mag. Oct. 451/2 I can dance a quadrille,..but I frankly own, that I feel far greater pleasure in attending a penny-wedding, or a farmer's maiden feast. 1908 Aldersgate Primitive Methodist Mag. 89 676/2 In the North a ‘maiden feast’ was given. The last handful of corn was called ‘the maiden’. 1996 R. Hutton Stations of Sun xxxiii. 343 Around 1800 it was known generally as the harvest supper, harvest feast, or harvest home,..in southern Scotland as the ‘kirn’ or ‘kirn supper’, in northern Scotland as the ‘maiden feast’. < as lemmas |
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