| 单词 | wassail bob |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswassail bob wassail bob n. [ < wassail n. + bob n.1] English regional (Yorkshire) (now historical and rare) a Christmas decoration made from boughs of evergreens, sometimes decorated with fruit, and frequently containing figures representing the Nativity scene; cf. wesley-bob n. ΚΠ 1853 Huddersfield Chron. 8 Jan. 7/5 The children sang—‘Our wassail-bob is made of the rosemary-tree’, but this was the top part of an evergreen fir-tree, and most gracefully adorned with very costly articles in fancy needlework. 1875 J. Burnley West Riding Sketches 258 Little girlish bands of carollers with their wassail-bobs, popped up here and there. 1947 Country Life 17 Jan. 195/1 When I was a boy in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the 1870s we made what we called a Wassail Bob by using two hoops. < as lemmas |
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