单词 | fastens |
释义 | † Fastensn. English regional (northern) and Scottish. Obsolete. The day or evening before the first day of Lent; Shrove Tuesday. Cf. Fastern's Een n., Fastens Tuesday n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > pre-Lent or Shrove-tide festivities Fastens1515 carnival1549 shroving1570 Mardi Gras1699 Moomba1955 1515 T. Magnus Let. 15 Mar. in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/10) f. 100 I marveils mych that we haue noon ansuer nor worde naither from the kingges highnes nor yor grace touching or last letters, whech wer wt youe at ffastens. 1616 Chronicon Pretiosum Snathense, 1568–1783 in Jrnl. Statist. Soc. (1858) 21 413 To be paid betwixt Candlemas and Ffastins. 1640 R. Brathwait Two Lancs. Lovers 19 Wee will han a Whiskin at every rush-bearing; a Wassell Cup at yule; a Seed-cake at Fastens; and a lusty Cheese-cake at our Sheepe-wash. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 30 Fasten, the evening before Lent. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Fastens, or Fasterns een, or Even, Shrove or Pancake Tuesday; the eve of Ash Wednesday on which begins the Lenten Fast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1515 |
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