| 单词 | nativity play |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnativity play nativity play n. a play (usually performed by children at Christmas time) representing the story of the birth of Jesus. ΚΠ 1871 H. B. Stowe My Wife & I ii. 7 The first child in a family is its poem—it is a sort of nativity play, and we bend before the young stranger, with gifts, ‘gold, frankincense and myrrh’. 1885 G. A. Healy (title) The Nativity play, or, Christmas cantata. 1902 L. Housman Bethlehem 5 All the songs of the ‘Nativity Play’..were designed to be set to music by my friend, Mr. Joseph Moorat. 1931 E. M. Brent-Dyer Chalet School & Jo xii. 167 They themselves performed, every Christmas, a Nativity Play in aid of the free ward for children at the Sonnalpe Sanatorium. 2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 14 May Gordon's acting talents first began to shine when he got a part in the Nativity play. < as lemmas |
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