| 单词 | feasten sunday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFeasten Sunday Designating a local feast day; chiefly in Feasten Sunday, Feasten Monday: the day on which a local feast day was celebrated, being the Sunday or Monday closest to the day on which the feast day of the saint to whom the local church was dedicated fell (now historical). Also: of or relating to a local feast day; esp. in feasten cake: a type of cake traditionally made to celebrate a feast day. Cf. feast cake n. at feast n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [adjective] feastfulc1425 feast-famous1605 convival1658 convivial1669 epulary1678 feasten1838 1838 D. Gilbert Parochial Hist. Cornwall II. 306 Prayers..were first given.., on the 3d Oct. 1802, being the feasten Sunday, to a congregation so large as almost to fill the churchyard as well as the church itself [at Kea]. 1844 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 5 Apr. 4/4 It being feasten time, witness had some friends with her from the Land's End. 1876 W. Soleman Rector of St Judy ii. 9 On the Sunday preceding ‘Feasten-Monday’, the Rector gave them a capital sermon on temperance. 1879 Cornishman 30 Jan. 6/1 The younger Zennor woman, in looking about for something more, spied the feasten cake, on a shelf over the window. 1886 M. A. Courtney in Folk-Lore Jrnl. 4 109 (title) Cornish feasts and ‘feasten’ customs. 1952 F. White Good Eng. Food 26 Devizes Simnel is star-shaped, and I was extremely proud to find that the late Lady Gomme, who was a much greater authority on Feasten Cakes than ever I shall be, had never heard of it. 2013 L. Woods Cornish Feasts & Festivals 108/1 Feasten Monday was a general holiday [at St Just]: mines were silent. 2014 Express (Nexis) 28 Mar. 13 Saffron..features in lots of local specialities, including the feasten cakes that are traditionally served at village festivals to honour a local saint. < as lemmas |
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