| 单词 | bothy ballad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbothy ballad bothy ballad n. a ballad or folk song traditionally sung by farmworkers or rural labourers in Scotland. ΚΠ 1897 A. Reid Bards Angus & Mearns 590 His edition of ‘Sandy Ro[d]ger's’ Poems, ‘Bothy Ballads’, etc., and his own 'Tayside Songs', point..to Ford's capacity for strenuous literary effort. 1899 R. Ford Vagabond Songs & Ballads Sc. 19 This typical bothy ballad..was a prime favourite..in the rural parts of Perthshire before and about the middle of the last century. 1952 J. R. Allan North-east Lowlands Scotl. (1974) 171 Most of them are ploughmen's songs and therefore are called bothy ballads, after the bothy in which the unmarried ploughmen lived. 2015 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 2 Nov. 26 Aberdeen Buchan Association Craigiebuckler Church, Aberdeen, with bothy ballad singer Geordie Murison, 7.30pm Wednesday. < as lemmas |
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