单词 | feast day |
释义 | feast dayn. A day on which a feast is held; spec. a day set as a religious (esp. Christian) celebration or festival; a holy day, a high day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] tidea900 holidayc950 massOE holy-daya1000 mass-dayOE high tideOE holy-tidea1035 good tideOE high dayOE feastc1200 feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 solemnity1390 solennityc1400 feastful day1440 festiala1450 festivala1500 sacre1542 panegyry1641 Magdalene-tide1649 church festival1661 surplice day1663 festa1800 festa day1835 fiesta1844 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of high tideOE high dayOE feast dayc1300 ferie1377 festival day1389 feastful day1440 festivala1500 gaudy-day1567 carnival1598 utas1600 saturnal1605 Saturnalia1639 terminals1656 days of gala1716 fête dayc1759 mirth-day1778 season1791 festa1800 jour de fête1806 fiesta1844 fest1846 Winterval1982 the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feast-day feast dayc1300 Great Dayc1475 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] > day of feast feast dayc1300 c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 140 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 303 Þe se hire with-drouȝ In þe feste-daiȝe of þulke stude. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 30 (MED) Þai drink na wyne, comounly, bot on hegh feste days [?a1425 Titus principall festes]. 1425 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 174 (MED) To ij wemen for her travayle yn helpynge to make clene þe halle ageyns owr Feste day. 1611 Bible (King James) Amos v. 21 I despise your feast dayes. 1727 J. Byrom Jrnl. 27 Dec. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. 286 It was the feast day of the woolwinders. a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 138 On the feast-day of Castor and Pollux. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xiii. 102 I dine with the dear fellow to-morrow and the next day—Christmas Eve and Christmas Day—but it would never do to spoil his feast days. 1911 Leigh Chron. 24 Mar. 5/2 Next Sunday is Simnel Sunday, an old Lancashire feast-day associated with simnels..and mulled ale, or braggot. 2007 Church Times 21 Dec. 17/4 A Sunday's collect is continued for the rest of that week (unless a feast day occurs). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300 |
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