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summer-game
(Also 4 somere(s) gamen.)
†1.
a. A festival held at Midsummer, celebrated with dancing, games, dramatic performances, etc.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4681 Daunces, karols, somour games, Of many swych come many shames. a1340Hampole Psalter xvi. 12 Þai haf vmgifen me in þe crosse hyngand, as foles þat gedirs til a somere gamen. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 246 A wilde pleiere of someres gamenes. c1440Promp. Parv. 404/1 Pley, or somyr game, spectaculum. 1469Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 103 note, Accessit cum Thoma Barker..et Margareta More, in regem et reginam ipsius villæ in ludo suo æstivali, Anglice Somer-game, forte electis. 1583Babington Commandm. (1590) 166 Whether carding,..stage plaies, and summer games..be exercises commanded of God for the sabaoth day or no. a1629Hinde J. Bruen xxxiii. (1641) 104 Profane exercises of May-games, and Summer-games [mispr. greenes].
†b. attrib. summer-game light: a light burnt in church on the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist (Midsummer Day, June 24). Obs.
[1438Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 103 note, Lumini æstival in eadem ecclesia v s.] 1464Ibid., Lumini vocato Somer-game light. 1519Ibid. 103 To the Somer-game lyght in my parishe chirche ij s.
2. U.S. slang. (See quots.)
1859G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 117 Summer game, playing merely for amusement. Summer game, playing a game for the benefit of another person with his money. 1890Barrère & Leland Slang Dict. (1897), Summer game (American gamblers), playing merely for amusement or benefit of another person, but with his money. |