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单词 ivy-girl
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ivy-girl
ivy-girl n. an effigy of a girl formed of ivy: see quots., and cf. holly-boy n. at holly n. Compounds 2.
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ivy-girl1736
holly-boy1779
1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Holly-boys and Ivy-girls, in West Kent, figures in the form of a boy and girl, made one of holly, the other of ivy, upon a Shrove Tuesday, to make sport with.
1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 137 The boys..in another part of the village, were assembled together and burning what they called an Ivy Girl, which they had stolen from the girls.
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