| 单词 | town wait |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown wait town wait n. now historical (in plural) = wait n. 8. ΚΠ 1541 in W. Kelly Notices Illustr. Drama (1865) 192 Item paed to Thomas Goldsmyth ffor mendyng of the Towne Waytes Collars. 1616 D. Powel Loue Wales sig. B4 Hauing before them the Towne Waites and other lowd Instruments of Musicke. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 102 I remember, very early in my musical life, to have heard one of the town waits, at Shrewsbury, vamp a base upon all occasions. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 75 His band..consisted of two dancing-school fiddlers and the town-waits. 1999 C. Lawson & R. Stowell Hist. Performance Music (2003) ii. 21 Such archives..will not necessarily explain..whether the lists include..‘extras’ such as students, amateurs, town waits or military bandsmen. < as lemmas |
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