单词 | jubilee-procession |
释义 | > as lemmasjubilee-procession attributive and in other combinations, as jubilee-bonfire, jubilee-coin, jubilee-issue, jubilee-masquerade, jubilee-post-card, jubilee-procession, jubilee-tree, jubilee-trumpet, jubilee-type, jubilee-year, etc. (Often with special reference to sense 1, 2, or 3; in the last case esp. frequent in the last two decades of the 19th cent. in reference to the two ‘Jubilees’ of the reign of Queen Victoria in 1887 and 1897, the Jubilee of Penny Postage in 1890, the Swiss (25 years') Jubilee of the Postal Union in 1900, and other celebrations.) ΚΠ 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxv. 28 The bigger shal haue that he bouȝte, vnto the iubilee ȝeer. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times i. xx. 45 Few [popes] had the happinesse to fill their Coffers with Iubilee-Coyne. 1749 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 267 The next day was what was called ‘a jubilee-masquerade in the Venetian manner’ at Ranelagh. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 59 The year 1480 was..the very jubilee year of German fools. 1887 Times 31 Dec. 9/1 The pleasant associations of the Jubilee year. 1891 Philat. Penny Postage Jubilee 117 The Jubilee celebrations..at the Guildhall..on May 16, 17 and 19 (1890). 1891 Philat. Penny Postage Jubilee 118 The Jubilee Post Office was more patronised than any other part of the Jubilee exhibition. 1893 Sir W. Harcourt in Daily News 15 Mar. 2/2 The designs for the new coins..were better than the Jubilee issue... Eighteen millions of the new gold coins issued were..of the Jubilee type. 1897 (title) Illustrated Programme of the Royal Jubilee Procession. < as lemmas |
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