单词 | ivy-girl |
释义 | > as lemmasivy-girl ivy-girl n. an effigy of a girl formed of ivy: see quots., and cf. holly-boy n. at holly n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > effigies in Shrove-tide festivities 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. < as lemmas |
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