| 单词 | parisian matins |
| 释义 | > as lemmasParisian matins Parisian matins n. [after French matines parisiennes (beginning of the 17th cent.)] French History the Massacre of St Bartholomew (24 August 1572), which began at about 2 a.m. (cf. Sicilian Vespers at Sicilian adj. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > instance of slaughter1483 Sicilian Vespers1586 plot of the long knivesa1604 blood feast?1611 Parisian matins1614 Parisian massacre1657 bloodbath1814 Roman holiday1818 holocaust1833 bath of blood1882 pogrom1889 bloodfest1907 blood purge1959 1614 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 346 For fear a Sicilian vespers, or Parisian matins, did ensue. 1896 Amer. Hist. Rev. 1 624 Catharine de' Medici, could be traced in all the crimes and blunders that had lately culminated in the frightful Parisian Matins. 1962 P. O'Brian tr. P. Erlanger St. Bartholomew's Night iv. 162 At four o'clock in the morning the tocsin in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois had begun ringing for what history was to call the Parisian matins. < as lemmas |
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