单词 | whitsun lady |
释义 | > as lemmasWhitsun lady Whitsun lady n. now historical a young woman who is chosen, together with the Whitsun lord, to preside over the festivities at a Whitsun Ale. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > presiding > at Whitsun festivities Whitsun lady1599 Whitsun lord1611 well-dresser1837 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 87 Such teachers are puritans, who can not abide whitson-ladies. 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 47 A Kitchen-wench,..now so tricked up with scarfs, rings, and cross-garters, that you never saw a Whitsun-Lady better rigged. 1902 N. Chesson Aquamarines 135 I am the Whitsun Lady; Mine are all glowing flowers. 1996 R. Hutton Stations of Sun xxiv. 255 Walter Woolton..told the villagers of Harberton in 1606 that he would get them a church ale and a Whitsun lord and lady again. < as lemmas |
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