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单词 Up-Helly-Aa
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Definition of Up-Helly-Aa in English:

Up-Helly-Aa

(also Up-Helly-A')
nounˌʌphɛlɪˈɑː
  • An annual festival held at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, celebrated as the revival of a traditional midwinter fire festival.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Vikings and Christians are to make their peace at this week's Up-Helly-Aa festival in Shetland when senior members of the Catholic and Episcopal churches attend the event for the first time in its history.
    • Up Helly Aa was so much better that I could have imagined, I loved every minute.

Origin

Variant of Scots Uphaliday, denoting Epiphany as the end of the Christmas holiday.

 
 
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