单词 | midsummer eve |
释义 | > as lemmasmidsummer eve midsummer eve n. (also midsummer's eve) the eve of Midsummer Day. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 On mydsomer eve, a dawber and his man, xiiij d. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 7709 I fele so swete odour As þou it were mydsomyr eue. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 73 The Celtic nations kindl'd..fires on midsummer eve. a1771 C. Smart Poems (1791) II. 50 By a prattling stream, on a Midsummer's eve. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. v. 438 On midsummer eve, when it is well known all kinds of ghosts, goblins, and fairies, become visible and walk abroad. 1904 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 53 The elderbush is cut on Midsummer Eve. 1971 ELH 38 119 The traditional Midsummer's Eve festival. 1975 Amer. Hist. Rev. 80 992/2 Celebration of Christmas, Midsummer Eve, and other holidays. 1994 Speculum 69 1228 Le jeu de la feuillée..was probably first produced in Arras on Midsummer's Eve 1276 or 1277. < as lemmas |
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