单词 | marriage bed |
释义 | marriage bedn. The bed used by a married couple; (hence) the sexual relationship of a husband and wife. Frequently used in figurative context with reference to marital fidelity. Also (occasionally) in more extended uses. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > conjugal relations > rights and duties bedc1175 wedlock-debt1422 marriage bed1567 marriage duty1567 spouse-bed1605 marriage joya1616 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > bed bridebedOE bridal beda1547 marriage bed1567 nuptial bed1578 wedding-bed1597 Hymen-bed1598 thore1649 wed-beda1650 geniala1701 nuptial couch1731 wedlock bed1820 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 51 Ne didst thou cause a marriage bed for Bridewife to be drest. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 130 Gall was cast out from the sacrifice of Iuno, which betokened that the marriage bed should be without bitternesse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. i. 27 Adri. This seruitude makes you to keepe vnwed. Luci. Not this, but troubles of the marriage bed . View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 414 The great felicity which Lovers promise to themselves, and taste also when they meet together in the Marriage-bed. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 446. ¶6 We do not find any Comedy..raised upon the Violations of the Marriage Bed. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iii. 423 The marriage bed of James the 1st of Great Britain..was, a few years ago, the ornament of an alehouse at Dunfermline. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (1877) II. iv. 7 During the period of penance, the penitent was compelled to abstain from the marriage-bed. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxviii. 41 Ages since the vanquished bled Round my mother's marriage-bed. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 5 The low-built shed Where hangs the swallow's marriage bed. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 442 He felt it his mission in life to urge me, to defile the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity. 1951 W. Sansom Face of Innocence iv. 45 She might think this was a trick of Harry's to get her away with him, to preamble the marriage-bed. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 Nov. 37/4 Even in the marriage bed, any quest for extra delights they stigmatized as sinful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1567 |
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