| 单词 | children's hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschildren's hour children's hour n. now historical an hour of recreation in the evening, spent by children with their parents; (also, with capital initials) the title of a BBC radio programme (first broadcast 1922, discontinued 1961). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific nooning1552 after-dinner1576 wheta1628 High Mail1676 High Mall1712 Sabbath-day1734 Blue Monday1790 noonscape1819 noon-spell1839 children's hour1853 smoke-ho1874 welting1964 society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > types of programme radio show1921 children's hour1923 series1923 scrap-book1933 postscript1940 write-in1947 radiothon1953 1853 ‘H. Trusta’ Last Leaf from Sunny Side 86 That hour was as dear to her as a Sabbath hour. It was called in the family dialect, ‘The children's hour.’ 1863 H. W. Longfellow Children's Hour i, in Tales Wayside Inn 209 Between the dark and the daylight..Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. 1923 Radio Times 12 Oct. 89/3 The Children's Hour: (a) Games and Pastimes; (b) Children's News. 1937 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Ladies & Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction 14 The children..live in the society of their parents. What was once known as the children's hour now extends handsomely into the twenty-four. 1964 M. Laski in S. Nowell-Smith Edwardian Eng. iv. 199 The institution of the ‘children's hour’ between afternoon tea and dressing for dinner. < as lemmas |
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