释义 |
wassail-bowl A large bowl or cup in which wassail (sense 2) was made and from which healths were drunk; a loving-cup; also the liquor contained in the bowl.
1606Sir G. Goosecappe ii. i. D 3 b, Hee is a most excellent Turner, and will turne you wassel-bowles, and posset Cuppes. 1608–9Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 179 Given to the maides which came with the wassell-boule, xijd. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Shepherdess v. i, Some neere towne,..Hath drawne them thether, bout some lusty sport; Or spiced wassal Boule. 1648Herrick Hesper., Country Life 56 Thy Wassaile bowle, That's tost up after Fox i' th' Hole..; thy Christmas revellings. 1661Pepys Diary 26 Dec., We went into an alehouse and there..a washeall⁓bowle woman and girle came to us and sung to us. 1686–7Aubrey Rem. Gentilism & Judaism (1881) 40 They goe into the Ox-house to the oxen, with the Wassell-bowle and drink to the ox. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. xvi. 195 Young Women went about with a Wassail-bowl, that is, a Bowl of spiced Ale on New Year's Eve. 1808Scott Marm. i. xv, A mighty wassail-bowl he took, And crown'd it high in wine. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1849) 287 A huge silver vessel of rare and curious workmanship..the Wassail Bowl, so renowned in Christmas festivity. Ibid. 288 note, The Wassail Bowl was sometimes composed of ale instead of wine; with nutmeg, sugar, toast, ginger, and roasted crabs. 1860G. P. Morris Poems (ed. 15) 178 Some love to stroll where the wassail-boul And the wine-cups circle free. |