单词 | shrove tuesday |
释义 | Shrove Tuesdayn. a. The Tuesday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday; often called pancake day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Tuesday in good tideOE Fastingong1389 Shroveday14.. Fastern's Een1416 Fastgong1429 Fastingong Tuesday1448 Fastingong Evec1450 Fastern's Evec1475 Shrove Tuesdaya1500 Shrift Tuesday1542 shrift's even1568 Fastens Tuesday1585 gut-tide1608 Mardi Gras1699 Pancake Day1700 Pancake Tuesday1790 sharp-Tuesday1858 a1500 Gough Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 159 On Chroftetewesday the Erle of Warwikk come from Caleis wt a faire felloshipp. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 They would..stand crosse-gag'd with kniues in their mouthes from one Shroft-tuisday to another. 1620 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) i. 115/2 By the vnmanerly maners of Shroue-Tuesday Constables are baffled, Bawds are bang'd, Punckes are pillag'd. c1640 Capt. Underwit iv. ii, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 381 Tis Shrovetuesday and the prentices are pulling downe Covent Garden. 1764 Oxf. Sausage 22 Let glad Shrove-Tuesday bring the Pancake thin. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo i. 1 Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about, The people take their fill of recreation. 1911 J. A. MacCulloch Relig. Anc. Celts xiv A cock or hen was ceremonially killed and eaten on Shrove Tuesday. b. allusively. A time of merriment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > time of Shrove Tuesday1616 Blue Monday1790 Shrovetide1840 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. i, in Wks. I. 552 Neuer a time, that the..collegiates come to the house, but you make it a shrouetuesday ! View more context for this quotation 1621 J. Taylor Praise of Beggery sig. D2 May euery day of the yeare be a Shrouetuesday. Compounds C1. attributive, as Shrove Tuesday night, Shrove Tuesday pancake. ΚΠ a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu3v/1 Never was Shrove-tuesday Bird So cudgel'd. 1634 T. Carew (title) Cœlum Britannicum. A masque..on Shrove-Tuesday-night. 1641 T. Herbert Newes out of Islington 1 As flat as a Shrove-tuesday pan-cake. C2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > cock shroving cock1629 shrove-cock1659 Shrove Tuesday cock1697 Shrovetide cock1700 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > used in festivals shroving cock1629 shrove-cock1659 Shrove Tuesday cock1697 Shrovetide cock1700 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. Pref. sig. A4v He..does..set up a Shrove-Tuesday Cock, for every one to throw at. 1848 R. Whately Let. in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 135 I should reply, I will not set up any proposal like a Shroue-Tuesday cock for you to pelt at. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1500 |
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