| 单词 | may eve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMay Eve May Eve n. the day or evening before May Day. ΚΠ 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 191 At vsuall feastes that ys the one on our ladie Eve in March, the other at Maye Eve. 1649 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII 68 Two Apprentices playing onely at Buckerels in the street late on May-eve. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 67 On May-eve the Druids made prodigious fires on those Carns. 1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 307 May-eve is considered a time of peculiar danger. 1898 Longman's Mag. Apr. 547 A bunch of birch twigs..are put up on May Eve ‘to keep off the witches’. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 40/2 In the Isle of Man..flowers were strewn on doorsteps on old May Eve. < as lemmas |
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