| 单词 | butter-letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-letter ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [noun] > ordinance of > dispensation > other indulgence1673 misericord1802 butter-letter1873 1873 R. B. Drummond Erasmus II. xiii. 15 In Switzerland the Pope's pardons were commonly known as ‘butter-letters’, it being understood that their chief effect was to permit people to eat butter and eggs upon fast days. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5/3 In Italy, butter is prohibited [in Lent]... The Northerners, however,..would have none of this, and special ‘butter-letters’ were consequently dispatched to them from the obliging Vatican. < as lemmas |
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