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单词 pinkster frolic
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Pinkster frolic
1. Formerly, in areas of the United States colonized or influenced by the Dutch: the festival of Pentecost or Whitsuntide. Frequently attributive, as Pinkster day, Pinkster frolic, etc. Now historical.
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1797 W. Dunlap Diary (1931) I. 65 The settlements along the river are dutch, it is the holiday they call pinkster & every public house is crowded with merry makers.
1821 J. F. Cooper Spy II. xii. 188 Upon my word you'd pass well at a pinkster frolic.
1845 J. F. Cooper Satanstoe I. vi. 162 Pinkster fields, and Pinkster frolicks, are no novelties to us, sir, as they occur every season.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) (at cited word) On Pinxter Monday the Dutch negroes..consider themselves especially privileged to get as drunk as they can.
1896 A. M. Earle Colonial Days N.Y. 196 There was one old-time holiday beloved of New Yorkers whose name is now almost forgotten,—Pinkster Day.
1926 J. Dowd Negro in Amer. Life 263 Cooper's realistic account of the annual festival held by the Negroes of New York in colonial times, known as Pinkster.
1946 Notes & Queries June 35/2 I prefer to consider Pinkster only in those places where it could be said to have enjoyed a stronghold—the New York City and Albany areas.
2000 William & Mary Q. 57 828 African slaves transformed Albany's Pinkster festival into a showcase for African ideas.
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