| 释义 |
ˈpancake-ˈbell
A bell formerly (still in some places) rung on Shrove Tuesday at or about 11 a.m., popularly associated with the frying of pancakes.
Generally held to have been originally the bell calling to confession. It was observed as the signal for the cessation of work, and beginning of the holiday.
1599Dekker Shoemaker's Holiday v. i, Upon every Shrove-Tuesday, at the sound of the pancake bell, my fine dapper Assyrian lads shall clap up their shop windows, and away. 1620J. Taylor (Water-P.) Jacke-a-Lent Wks. (1630) 115/1 Shroue-Tuesday,..by that time the clocke strikes eleuen, which (by the helpe of a knauish Sexton) is commonly before nine, then there is a bell rung, cald The Pan⁓cake Bell, the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted. 1640–1in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 212 Making a frame for the Pancake bell. 1896Leeds Merc. 29 Feb. Suppl. (E.D.D.), Richmond and Darlington have also their pancake bells, also Northallerton, at which place the same bell is used as for the curfew. The pancake bell called the people to be shriven before Lent. |