| 单词 | whitsun week |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWhitsun week Whitsun week n. the week beginning with Whitsunday. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun] > week beginning with Whit Sunday Whitsun weekc1325 Whit week1728 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10542 Þe þorsdai þe witesonewouke to londone lowis com. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 147 Apon a Seterday in Whisson woke. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 92 Ȝe schal come to me in Brystowe in þe Whitsunwoke. 1478 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 510 Wretyn at London þe Wednysdaye in Whyghtsonweke. 1517 in J. C. Cox Churchwardens' Accts. (1913) xvi. 213 Payde for ale for the Ryngers the gang weke and ye wytson wyke ijs. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 91 Vpon wednesday in Wheeson weeke . View more context for this quotation 1748 J. Wesley Let. 16 Apr. (1931) II. 142 I hope to be there about Wednesday in Whitsun week. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. v. 56 The great annual town-holiday of Whitsun-week. 2006 Mirror (Nexis) 27 May 2 This Whitsun week the Prime Minister will take a family holiday. < as lemmas |
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