| 单词 | summer tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer tree summer tree n. originally and chiefly Scottish (now chiefly historical) a high pole set up during festivals held in the summer, esp. at midsummer; = summer pole n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with midsummer > decorated pole summer tree1555 summer pole1557 1555 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1555/6/41 Gif ony wemen or uthers about simmer treis singand, makis perturbatioun to the quenis liegis in the passage throw burrowis. 1555–6 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) I. 270 Bocht iij dosoun fyrsparis to mak symmer treis with birkis about thame on the Nether Bow. 1826 W. Scott Provinc. Antiq. Scotl. I. 40 By the same statute, women singing round Summer-trees, or Maypoles, are ordered to be taken, handled, and put upon the ducking-stone. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough I. iii. 298 The bringing in of the pine-tree from the wood, decked with violets and woollen bands, corresponds to bringing in the May-tree or Summer-tree in modern folk-custom. 2002 A. Franklin Midsummer ii. 19 In Russia the summer tree is decked with ribbons. < as lemmas |
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