单词 | pound day |
释义 | > as lemmaspound day pound day n. British (now historical) a day on which donations of groceries weighing one pound each are sold to raise money for a good cause. ΚΠ 1889 Clerks Guernsey News 10 May 5/1 The Pound Day at the Victoria Cottage Hospital..was a great success, the appeal for a pound weight of some kind of grocery from each donor being very..widely responded to. 1909 Daily Chron. 26 Jan. 6/5 On ‘Pound-days’,..persons were invited to bring a pound of anything—a pound of dripping, a pound of sugar, or a pound of gold. 1979 M. Campion Making of Hospice xii. 57 In the meantime, pound days, sales of work, concerts and charity sermons continued to finance the work. 2004 Sussex Express (Nexis) 4 Mar. Perhaps it was these events that led to the idea of Seaford's Pound Days. < as lemmas |
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