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单词 parson's week
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parson's week
parson's week n. colloquial Obsolete a holiday period of about thirteen days and including only one Sunday, humorously regarded as the longest holiday available to a parson who was excused one Sunday's duties.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of specific number of days
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1790 W. Cowper Let. 28 June (1982) III. 393 If they come..they will stay..a parson's week, that is to say about a fortnight, and no longer.
1856 C. Kingsley Let. to T. Hughes in Life (1879) II. xiv. 3 I wish you would..go with me to Snowdon..for a parson's week, i.e. twelve days.
1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. x. 89 The Professor has been gone a parson's week.
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