| 释义 |
† ˈking-by-your-ˈleave Obs.
A variety of the game of hide-and-seek (see quot. 1572).
1572Huloet, Kinge by your leaue, a playe that children haue, where one sytting blyndefolde in the midle, bydeth so tyll the rest haue hydden them selues, and then he going to seeke them, if any get his place in the meane space, that same is kynge in his roume. 1611Florio, Abomba, is properly the place, where children playing hide themselves, as at a play called king by your leave. [1884Black Jud. Shaks. iii, Is it anything worse than the children..having a game of ‘King by your leave’?] |