单词 | gaudy-day |
释义 | gaudy-dayn. 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). < n.1567 |
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