| 单词 | ladytide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLadytide Ladytide n. now historical the period around Lady day (25th March); (also) Lady day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Annunciation (25 March) > [noun] > quarter containing Lady Quarter1623 Ladytide1778 1778 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 67 The growth of the Tares and Rye was very luxuriant, and mown at New Lady-Tide. 1790 E. Halsted Hist. & Topogr. Kent (1797) II. 364 The presentation of the vicarage, at the yearly rent of 13l. 6s. 8d. and three bushels of wheat, at Ladytide, to the poor of Sutton and Wilmington. 1894 Athenæum 17 Mar. 341/1 The practice of sending sheep to be kept in the Weald districts from Michaelmas to Ladytide is not wholly abandoned. 1999 B. J. Ward Contempl. upon Flowers (2000) 260 [Marigolds] have been employed to decorate churches for Ladytide on 25 March, the feast day in honor of the annunciation of the Virgin. < as lemmas |
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