| 单词 | wren-boys |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswren-boys wren-boys n. in Ireland, a party of boys or young men, carrying a decorated holly-bush with a wren or wrens hanging from it, who go about on St. Stephen's Day singing verses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > participants in other specific festivities savage mana1577 Saturnaliana1665 souler1778 wren-boys?a1800 Jack in the green1835 carnivaller1881 orgiophant1886 strawboy1894 carnivalite1896 garlander1939 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > street musician > specific groups of waits1773 wren-boys?a1800 ?a1800 in Croker Researches in S. Ireland (1824) 233 It won't agree with the Wren boys at all. 1824 T. C. Croker Researches S. Ireland 233 A holly bush..having many wrens depending from it..is carried from house to house with some ceremony, the ‘Wren boys’ chaunting several verses. a1855 in Notes & Queries 1st Ser. XII. 489 Song of the Youghal Wren-boys. 1871 Yarrell's Brit. Birds (ed. 4) I. 465 The dead bird, hung by the leg between two hoops,..was carried about by the ‘Wren-boys’ [of Cork]. < as lemmas |
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