英语词汇“lyke wake”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lyke wake

/lʌɪk

noun British

A night spent watching over a dead body, typically acting as a celebration to mark the passing of the person’s soul: No, no, father, we can’t be cutting into that ham. That’s for the lyke wake...

Plummer evidently was acquainted with the family, however, and had some idea that the lyke-wake was in order.
The lyke wake, when friends sat up all night by the coffin, was not being so frequently observed by the middle years of the nineteenth century, but on the morning of the funeral the men gathered for a few drams.

Origin

Late Middle English: from lyke (from Old English līc 'body': compare with lychgate) and the noun wake¹.

单词	lyke wake
释义	lyke wake /lʌɪk / noun British A night spent watching over a dead body, typically acting as a celebration to mark the passing of the person’s soul: No, no, father, we can’t be cutting into that ham. That’s for the lyke wake... Plummer evidently was acquainted with the family, however, and had some idea that the lyke-wake was in order. The lyke wake, when friends sat up all night by the coffin, was not being so frequently observed by the middle years of the nineteenth century, but on the morning of the funeral the men gathered for a few drams. Origin Late Middle English: from lyke (from Old English līc 'body': compare with lychgate) and the noun wake¹.
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