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单词 horn-fair
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horn-fair
horn-fair n. Obsolete ‘a fair formerly held at Charlton in Kent’ (Nares) for the sale of horn goods; used allusively by 17th and 18th cent. writers with reference to cuckoldry.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > for specific type of goods
horse-fair1369
pot market1580
pig market1647
horn-fair1669
Rag Fair1704
pot fair1738
beast market1779
Michael fair1813
pantechnicon1830
slave market1835
foal fair1880
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > dishonour by wife's adultery
cuckoldry?1529
horning?1578
nightcapa1616
cornuting1640
horn-fair1669
cuckold-making1681
cuckoldom1681
hornwork1738
hornification1819
hornifying-
1669 Newest Acad. Compliments When..cuckolds forget to march to Horn-fair.
1730 Poor Robin Now in small time comes on Horn-fair, Your horns and ladles now prepare.
1896 A. W. Tuer Hist. Horn-bk. I. vii. 91 Horn Fair was held at least as early as the time of Henry III, and was continued annually until abolished in 1872.
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