| 单词 | curfewbell |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurfew-bell 2. With various words prefixed to describe its shape, material, etc., or define its use, as alarm bell n., bridle-bell, clock-bell, curfew-bell, dinner-bell, doorbell, handbell, marriage-bell, night-bell, sheep-bell, town-bell; and esp. in ecclesiastical use, as bearing-bell, houseling-bell, lich-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell or saunce-bell; death-bell n. a bell tolled to announce a death., passing-bell n. = death-bell n.See also church bell n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. undern-bella1400 bell1422 clock-bell1508 minute-gun1728 hour-bell1785 ghurry1816 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > bell > [noun] church belleOE wakerell1485 bearing-bell1508 houseling-bell1508 lich-bell1508 sacring-bell1508 sanctus-bell1508 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Ane benefice, quha wald gyue sic ane beste, Bot gif it war to gyngill Iudas bellis? 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. c.iiijv Pardon Beades, Tanthonie belles, Tauthrie laces. 1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. (passim) Bearing-bell, clock-bell, hand-bell, houseling-bell, lyche-bell, sacring-bell, sanctus-bell, visiting-bell. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 4 The Curfewe bell hath rung. View more context for this quotation a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 36 Thou a passing bell, 'Gainst their transgressions did so loudly knell. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 40 Every word fell on Butler's ear like the knell of a death-bell. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 13 The bridle-bells rang merrily. 1861 Romance Dull L. xlviii. 358 Listening to the idly busy sound of sheep-bells. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Falcon Federigo 110 A passing bell Tolled from the tower. curfew-bell curfew-bell n. see sense 1. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. > curfew-bell curfew-bellc1320 society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > curfew bell curfewc1320 curfew-bellc1320 c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1497 Corfour belle ringge gan. 1509 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 112 I gyve toward ye ryngers charge off the gret belle in Seynt Mary Chirche, callyd corfew belle. 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. iv. 59 But a newe rope, to ring the Couure-feu Bell. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 187 That there shall be Cover-feu Bells rung..after the Ringing of which no Man shall be found upon the Streets. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. i. 181/2 He..would ring aloud Courfeu-Bell, wherever he saw the Fires of Animosity. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 103 A law of police which directed all fires to be put out at the tolling of a bell called Curfew bell, is by later chroniclers ascribed to Wm. the Conqueror, but without any countenance from the early writers. < as lemmas |
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