Tobias nightn.

/təʊˈbʌɪəs nʌɪt/

Etymology: translating German Tobiasnacht, which alludes to Tobit viii. 1–3.

(See quots.) Cf. Toby-night n. at toby n.¹ 6.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > putting bride to bed > consummation of marriage > postponement of

Toby-night1910

Tobias night1960

1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 539/1 Tobias nights, in the Catholic church, postponing the consummation of a marriage for several nights.

1975 Amer. Speech 1973 48 73 One need not go all the way back to Semitic antiquity..nor to the derivative nineteenth-century Swiss and German custom of the ‘Tobiasnächte’, the ‘Tobias nights’, in which the next of kin slept between the newlyweds for the first three nights of marriage to protect them at a time when their resistance to evil would be at its lowest ebb.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	tobias night
释义	Tobias nightn. /təʊˈbʌɪəs nʌɪt/ Etymology: translating German Tobiasnacht, which alludes to Tobit viii. 1–3. (See quots.) Cf. Toby-night n. at toby n.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > putting bride to bed > consummation of marriage > postponement of Toby-night1910 Tobias night1960 1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 539/1 Tobias nights, in the Catholic church, postponing the consummation of a marriage for several nights. 1975 Amer. Speech 1973 48 73 One need not go all the way back to Semitic antiquity..nor to the derivative nineteenth-century Swiss and German custom of the ‘Tobiasnächte’, the ‘Tobias nights’, in which the next of kin slept between the newlyweds for the first three nights of marriage to protect them at a time when their resistance to evil would be at its lowest ebb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1960
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