| 单词 | basket-meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbasket-meeting basket-meeting n. U.S. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun] picnic1748 tea-treatc1748 a kettle of fish1791 scram1831 picnic meal1839 box supper1851 basket-meeting1859 picnic lunch1865 picnic tea1869 school feast1879 basket picnic1882 box lunch1889 basket dinner1892 basket lunch1905 packed lunch1906 sack lunch1972 brown-bag lunch1976 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Basket-meeting, in the West, a sort of pic-nic, generally with some religious ‘exercises’. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 191 A corn-husking is announced..and the neighbors from far and near assemble, each bringing his provisions in a basket. From the latter feature these pic-nics derive their names of Basket-meetings. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 215 He had been to Jenkinsville t'other day to what the Methodis called a ‘basket-meetin’. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Basket-meeting,... It sometimes occurs in sparsely populated districts, that a clergyman's stipend is largely paid in kind, and the occasions upon which the obligation thus incurred is carried out, are called in the West basket-meetings. In the East they are Donation-parties. < as lemmas |
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