单词 | bride ale |
释义 | bride alen. 1. A wedding banquet or feast; (in later use) spec. a medieval or early modern communal wedding celebration, typically involving ale drinking. Now archaic and historical.Only post-medieval uses of forms beginning bride-, bryde-, etc., are treated here. For earlier use of forms such as Old English brydealo, Middle English bredeale, see bridal n., of which this word was originally a variant (see etymology). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking socially > at a wedding bride ale1526 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast bride ale1526 marriage feast?1533 bride-banquet1600 spouse-feast1601 wedding-feast1633 wedding-banquet1855 1526 Grete Herball xxxi. sig. H.v/2 Maydens make garland of it [sc. calendula, i.e. marigold] whan they go to feestes and brydeales bycause it hath fayre yelowe floures and ruddy. 1540 T. Cranmer Prol. or Pref. in Bible (Great) sig. ✠iii Nether is wepynge conuenient at a brydeale. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ix. 69 For recreation of the common people at Christmasse diners & brideales. 1616 H. Ainsworth Annot. First Bk. Moses, called Genesis (xxix. 22) sig. X4/2 A banquet..named in Hebrue of drinking,..such we call a Bride-ale. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) V. 202 Wakes, church-ales, bride-ales, and other chearful festivals of the common people. a1861 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. (1864) III. ii. iii. 126 The doleful bridale of Dôle. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) II. vii. 149 Tostig's bride, whose bride-ale had been so cruelly interrupted. 1992 J. M. Bennett in Past & Present 134 20 Among the most common ales were church-ales (to raise funds for parochial expenses), bride-ales (to endow marrying couples) and help-ales (to assist those who..fell on hard times). 2014 R. A. Houston Bride Ales & Penny Weddings i. 23 Attending bride ales was as routine as being invited round to a friend's house, going out to dinner, or falling ill. 2. (A type of) ale served at or brewed for a wedding; spec. the ale served at a medieval or early modern wedding (historical).There is no evidence that the ale served at medieval and early modern weddings was called bride ale in those periods, despite the assertion of some modern popular history books. This idea may have arisen from a misinterpretation of the element ale in sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > ale for specific occasions wassailc1300 hock-ale1484 hocking-ale1484 Christian ale1640 bummocka1688 bing-ale1735 lamb-ale1781 clerk-ale1791 audit ale1823 bride ale1868 bed-ale1880 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 70 Bride-ale, the warmed, sweetened, and spiced ale..presented..to a wedding party on its return from church. 1929 Folk-lore 40 280 At poorer weddings the bride served and sold ‘bride ale’. 2014 PR Newswire (Nexis) 6 June The 2014 batch of Brewlywed Ale, a Belgian-style ‘bride ale’, is a distinct and complex brew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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