单词 | boat race night |
释义 | > as lemmasboat race night attributive in sense 1b, (in early use) esp. in boat race night (see quots.). ΚΠ 1863 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 22 Feb. 11/5 The Oxford and Cambridge boat-race day has not yet been fixed. 1871 Illustr. Police News 8 Apr. 4/3 (headline) Boat-race night.—A riot in the Haymarket. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 24 Mar. (1967) 54 I am sick of 'varsity men & shall leave on Friday for Brighton & so escape whiskey & whores on boat race night. 1897 R. Peel Bit of Fool iv. 48 The disorder of that night in the neighbourhood of the Criterion has much moderated of late years; but at the time of which I write the Boat-race was in the height of popularity, and Boat-race night was kept as a revel. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves ii. 46 Have you forgotten that I did thirty days..for punching a policeman..on Boat-Race night? 1960 Times 28 Jan. 8/3 (caption) Members of the Cambridge Boat Race practice crew limber up. 2010 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 18 Nov. 110 Conditions on the famous 4.5-mile Boat Race course on the tidal Thames were calm. < as lemmas |
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