单词 | rere-supper |
释义 | rere-suppern. Now historical. A late supper, the final meal of the day; spec. a lavish meal taken late at night in addition to the usual evening meal. Also figurative. Cf. rere-banquet n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > retiring or secondary meal voideec1374 rere-suppera1393 void1461 rere-banquet1530 after-meala1600 after-supper1600 postpast1603 rere feast?1615 arrière supper1889 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 911 (MED) Thanne is he redy in the weie Mi reresouper forto make. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 7259 (MED) Rere sopers yn pryuyte [Fr. les rere supers en priuité] with glotonye echone þey be. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 2260 (MED) Sardanapall..Callid in his tyme a prynce off baudrie, Fond rere soperis [v.r. rersuppers] and fether beddis soffte. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 8 (MED) She wold haue rere sopers whanne her fader and moder was a-bedde. a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 9 (MED) My complexcyon a cordyth to eny mete, But reresopers j refowse, lest j shuld surfett. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv Eschewynge bankettes, reresoupers, ioncryes betwyxe meales. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 110 b With banquetyng from daie to daie, with sumptuous reare suppers. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G4 v Then a set breakfast, then dinner, then afternoones nunchings, a supper, & a rere-supper. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xii. 55 Immediatly vpon a banket, the Physician Thessalus made a reare-supper. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 50 Reer Suppers were my Solace: I suited my youthful Fancy to jovial Company. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iv. 90 He was guilty of the enormity of rere-suppers. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley II. xiii. 297 Prognostications of a rere supper. 1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) xxiv. 278 Master Sheriff wants his rere-supper. 1948 Mod. Lang. Rev. 43 248 I might add that by the time of More and Horman an after-supper had become a rere-supper. 1991 L. Hunter in C. A. Wilson Banquetting Stuffe iii. 39 A rere-supper seems to have been more specifically for men alone, during which they simply became very drunk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1393 |
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