| 单词 | may-game lord |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMay-game lord General attributive (usually with hyphen); formerly sometimes with the sense ‘sham, make-believe’, alluding to the practice of appointing a mock king or the like to preside over May games, in May-game king, May-game lord, etc. ΚΠ 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 75/2 in Chron. I Thys Maygame Lorde, named indeede Peter (in scorne Perkin) Warbecke. 1602 J. Rhodes Answere Romish Rime sig. C3 Your May-game pastimes. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. ii. §4. 178 In this sort came this Maygame-King into the field, incombred with a most vnnecessarie traine of Strumpets. 1630 Pathomachia ii. v. 21 I hae lurked here all this time in seeing this maygame Muster. 1653 W. Dell Tryal of Spirits 86 School Doctors, that is, Trifling or May-game Doctors. 1888 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Ballads III. 45 The relation of Robin Hood, John, and the Friar to the May-game morris is obscure. < as lemmas |
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