| 单词 | mead-bench |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmead-bench mead-bench n. now archaic and historical a seat where mead was drunk (used only with reference to the early Middle Ages in Western Europe). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > mead-hall > bench mead-benchOE society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] > ale- or mead-bench mead-benchOE OE Beowulf 776 Þær fram sylle abeag medubenc monig. 1839 T. Wright Ess. Lit. & Learning under Anglo-Saxons 1 The heroic song in which the scóp or poet told the venerable traditions of the foreworld to the chieftains assembled on the ‘mead-bench’. 1959 A. G. Brodeur Art of Beowulf 16 A mead-bench is a seat in a royal hall, where the dispensing of good drink symbolizes the warm relationship between lord and retainer. 1994 G. Jack Beowulf (1997) 27 Depriving them of the mead-benches—i.e. the hall—signifies their subjugation. < as lemmas |
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