| 单词 | houseling towel |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouseling towel C1. General attributive, as houseling bread, houseling cloth, houseling towel, etc.In quot. 1590 in extended use, with reference to a non-Christian marriage ceremony. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [adjective] houseling1434 Eucharistical1534 sacramental1552 Eucharistic1664 communional1798 1434 Inventory in Archaeologia (1888) 51 66 (MED) Sex howselyng towell longis. 1454 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1915) 31 p. lvii (MED) It., for syngyng brede and hoselyn brede, xv d. 1532 in E. Hobhouse Churchwardens' Accts. (1890) 147 Payd for xxviij yards of Irys cloth for a hussyllyng cloth. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 86 One howslinge bell. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M4 His owne two hands..The housling fire did kindle and prouide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide. 1681 in J. Noake Notes & Queries Worcs. (1856) 31 Paid Mr. Lea for howsling pence (or huslinge money, as it is elsewhere called) 11d. a1802 J. Strutt Queenhoo-Hall (1808) III. ix. 197 We be not seeking for tales of dreariment; sickerly I vise you, leave your pistles for the housling tide. 1872 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 9 318 It is not generally known that houseling cloths are still used [in the Church of England], but only in one place that I know of in England—viz., in Wimborne Minster. 1901 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 31 105 Manchet was purchased on Good Friday,..and ‘hossling’..bread for Holy Communion. 1905 Musical Times 46 155/2 The churchwardens..received 35s. of the communicants at Easter. This money was called Houseling Money. 1942 Burlington Mag. Nov. 285/2 Plate II (Louvre) shows a wide communicants' bench covered with a houselling cloth. 2010 R. Whiting Reformation Eng. Parish Church i. v. 79 St. Sidwell Exeter was stripped by plundering laymen of all its vestments, and Woodbury lost houseling towels, altar cloths, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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