英语词汇“grass week”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Grass Week n. Christian Church colloquial (now historical and rare) (a name for) the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Ascension Day, the Rogation Days; (sometimes more widely) the week in which Ascension Day falls.With reference to the vegetable-based diet eaten on the Rogation Days, when abstention from meat is traditionally required.

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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Rogation, an asking, demanding, or intreating, whence Rogation week, the next week but one before Whitsunday; so called from the duty of fasting and prayer injoyned at that time by the Church, as a preparative to the feast of the Ascention, it is also called Gang week, and by some Grasse week.

1889 Lancaster Gaz. 15 June In some parts of England, the week is still known as crop week, grass week, and procession week.

1973 Times 2 June 12/2 In other parishes, this was Grass Week, when nothing but vegetables and fasting foods could be consumed until the final day.

单词	grass week
释义	> as lemmas Grass Week Grass Week n. Christian Church colloquial (now historical and rare) (a name for) the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Ascension Day, the Rogation Days; (sometimes more widely) the week in which Ascension Day falls.With reference to the vegetable-based diet eaten on the Rogation Days, when abstention from meat is traditionally required. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Rogation, an asking, demanding, or intreating, whence Rogation week, the next week but one before Whitsunday; so called from the duty of fasting and prayer injoyned at that time by the Church, as a preparative to the feast of the Ascention, it is also called Gang week, and by some Grasse week. 1889 Lancaster Gaz. 15 June In some parts of England, the week is still known as crop week, grass week, and procession week. 1973 Times 2 June 12/2 In other parishes, this was Grass Week, when nothing but vegetables and fasting foods could be consumed until the final day. extracted from grassn.¹ < as lemmas
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