| 单词 | to ride, run, win the broose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride, run, win the broose A race on horseback, or on foot, by the young men present at country weddings in the north, the course being from the place where the marriage ceremony is performed (in Scotland the bride's former home) to the bridegroom's house. Hence to ride, run, win the broose. (The prize is usually a coloured silk handkerchief.) ‘It is understood to be a survival from primitive marriage customs: probably the whole wedding cortège formerly conveyed the bride at full gallop to the bridegroom's house; but now the race is kept up by the young men only, the rest of the procession following at leisure.’ ( N.E.D.) Cf. bridelope n., and the related words there mentioned. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > other foot races smock-race1707 broose1786 smock-racing1790 sack running1801 torch-race1812 torch-course1839 sack race1859 potato race1865 obstacle race1869 three-legged race1876 mud run1888 egg-and-spoon race1894 cross-country1905 obstacle course1942 runathon1943 pancake race1951 fun run1960 fun running1966 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 166 At Brooses thou had ne'er a fellow, For pith an' speed. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 156 To think to ride or rin the bruise Wi' them ye name. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 306 The broose or contest who shall first reach the house of the bridegroom is very keenly maintained. 1863 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ (ed. 3) 31 You know what riding the bruse means. < as lemmas |
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