| 单词 | king ale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking ale king ale n. now historical a parish festival held to celebrate a royal anniversary, celebrated by drinking ale, feasting, and entertainments; cf. ale n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > feasts for other occasions plough feast1355 king ale1472 natal1484 primifeste1551 mayor's feast1578 sheep-shearing feast1586 sheep-shearing1611 christening1617 bean-feast1805 updrinking1819 Thanksgiving dinner1830 bump supper1845 potlatch1858 stag1904 rehearsal dinner1906 1472 in J. F. Williams Early Churchwardens' Accts. Hampshire (1913) 8 Of William Plomer and Alice Fewar for a Kyngale. 1600 in G. W. Kitchin Manor of Manydown, Hampshire (1895) 171 Receipts for the Kingale as followeth for the Sounday after Midsomer Day, Junii xxixo. 1896 A. M. Straton in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum Introd. p. xvi The King ales were held on the weeks before and after Pentecost and at the Translation of St. Edmund. 1920 Stud. Philol. 17 75 The summer feast..is often called an ale—a Whitsun ale, a king ale, a play ale, or even a Robin Hood ale. 2011 M. Ingram in S. Doran & N. Jones Elizabethan World (2014) v. xxvii. 471 Festivities were not confined to the occasion of the king ale itself, for there was a separate payment for minstrels on May Day. < as lemmas |
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