| 单词 | whit tuesday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWhit Tuesday 1. Designating the days of Whitsun week (Whitsun week n. at Whitsun n. Compounds 3), as Whit Monday, Whit Tuesday, Whit Wednesday, etc. Cf. Whitsunday n.Whit Saturday is used to denote the Saturday before Whitsunday (cf. Whitsun eve n. at Whitsun n. Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun] > Tuesday following Whit Tuesdaya1697 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun] > Wednesday following Whit Wednesday1778 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [noun] > Thursday following Whit1839 1557 Queen Mary I Let. 2 June in Hist. MSS Comm.: 15th Rep., App. Pt. II (1897) 31 in Parl. Papers (C. 8327) XLVIII. 423 Untill the viiith daye of this present moneth whiche shall be Whitmondaye. 1665 Wonders if not Miracles V. Gertrux 5 I went up thither..on White-munday. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) III. 227 Here are two Fairs, viz. on September 12th, and Whit-Tuesday. 1774 J. Woodeforde Diary 24 May (1924) I. 132 Cary Fair to-day being White Tuesday. 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) Llanbeder, Cardiganshire..has..fairs on Whit-Wednesday, July 10 [etc.]. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 403/1 Whit-Thursday. 1867 E. F. Bowden tr. Countess Hahn-Hahn Lives Fathers of Desert 365 In the night between Whitsunday and Whitmonday. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. xxii. 320 It was now Whit-Tuesday, and the lilacs all in blossom. 1960 Billboard 23 May 43/4 The telerecording Harry Belafonte made for BBC-TV last fall..gets a re-run Whit Saturday. 2013 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 1 June (Features section) 12 Every Whit Monday my grandmother would take me to see the Bristol Morris Men. < as lemmas |
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