| 单词 | carol-song |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarol-song attributive and in other combinations, as carol service, carol singer, carol singing (also as present participle); carol-song, carol-wise; carol-chanting adj. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr.) 201 And songyn as it were in carolewyse. 1583 T. Watson Poems (1870) 137 Let those lament who lust, Ile sing a carroll song for obsequy. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 5 And carroll-chanting birds are sudden mute. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 77/2 Carol singing is of great antiquity among Christian communities. 1911 E. Duncan Story of Carol xiv. 180 On Christmas Eve country carol-singers spent half the night tramping the ice-bound ways. 1911 E. Duncan Story of Carol xiv. 191 An amusing story, connected with carol-singing, is related in Pasquil's Jests. 1928 P. Dearmer et al. Oxf. Bk. Carols p. xvi William Hone..anticipated that carol-singing would entirely disappear in a few years. 1928 P. Dearmer et al. Oxf. Bk. Carols p. xxii ‘Carol services’ are indeed not infrequently held even to-day at which not a single genuine carol is sung. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 17 I've always sung in our voluntary choir And at the carol service. 1954 Radio Call (Austral.) 22 Dec. 10 As on previous Christmas eves, they'll be carol singing for appreciative audiences. 1978 Washington Post 19 Nov. f2/2 Its four holiday stamps..showing carol singers through the ages will go on sale Wednesday. < as lemmas |
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