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单词 gaudy-day
释义

gaudy-dayn.

Forms: Also 1500s gaude-day (1800s gaudé-).
Etymology: < gaudy n. + day n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgaudy-day.
A day of rejoicing, a festival or gala day; esp. the day on which a college ‘gaudy’ is held (see gaudy n. 5).
ΘΚΠ
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
1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. *vv Their loue dayes, their gaude dayes.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cciii. 172 The full dyet..may be such, as is vsed at Oxforde vppon gaudie daies.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i. 42 Your foode shall be Black-beries, and vpon gawdy dayes A Pickled Spider.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gawdy, or Grand days. In the Inns of Court there are four of these in the year, that is, one in every Term.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 100 St Thomas a Gaudy-Day in Queen's College.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 377 There are..Twelve Companies of incorporated Trades, who, on public Occasions, and on Gaudy-days, walk in the Mayor's Train.
1795–6 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. IX. 51 On this their gaudy day the new Regicide Directory sent for their diplomatick rabble.
1814 Hist. Univ. Oxf. II. 261 This dress is worn..at dinners on gawdy days.
1830 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay iii. (1843) 52 A gaudy-day myeks a' hands merry.
1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. III. 161 It was a gaudy day for the burly London Citizens.
1884 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 418 The annual gaudy day was especially a festivity of the Arts Faculty.

Derivatives

gaudy-night n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun]
festivityc1410
rejoicingc1475
festivala1500
gaudy1535
show of misrule1555
gaudc1571
wake1577
festal1581
jubilee1589
gaudy-nighta1616
gala night1762
bridewain1789
gala1800
bean-feast1805
holinighta1821
let-off1827
glorification1843
pesta1964
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 185 Come, Let's haue one other gawdy night: Call to me All my sad Captaines, fill our Bowles once more: Let's mocke the midnight Bell. View more context for this quotation
1935 D. L. Sayers (title) Gaudy night.
1963 Lockhart & Woodhouse Rhodes xxiii. 404 It happened to be the College's annual Gaudy night.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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