单词 | michaelmas moon |
释义 | > as lemmasMichaelmas moon ΚΠ c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 532 (MED) Þus ȝirnez þe ȝere in ȝisterdayez mony..Til meȝel-mas mone Watz cumen wyth wynter wage. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 344 The Michaelmas Moon rises ay alike soon. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 134 The father promises for her portion 200 Scots marks, and half of a Michaelmas Moon. 1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. 15 Parties of Highland harryers, who had descended from the hills during the ‘Michaelmas moons’..to plunder those Lowlanders. a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 197 Ae nicht, at the heicht o' the Michaelmas moon, The tailor at our house was sewin'. < as lemmas |
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