| 单词 | midwinter day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidwinter day midwinter day n. (also midwinter's day) †(a) Christmas Day, 25 December (obsolete); (b) a day in midwinter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun] yulea900 yule-daya900 midwinter tideeOE midwinterOE Christmas DayOE ChristmasOE good tideOE midwinter dayOE Christenmasc1330 nativity1389 Nowellc1400 noel1435 pacea1450 Xmas1551 yule-tide1572 Christ-tide1581 Christmastide1590 Christmastime1617 yule time1787 Xmassing1788 festive season1794 Crimbo1928 Chrissie1946 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 Ða on midwintres dæg hine halgode to kynge Ealdred arcebiscop on Westmynstre. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Te Lundenisce folc him underfeng, & senden æfter þe ærcebiscop Willelm Curbuil, & halechede him to kinge on midewintre dæi. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11430 A midewinteres dæi. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 19 Me schulde synge þre masses wiþ Gloria in excelsis a mydwynter day [L. in festo Natalis Domini]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 122 Þe fourþe [fastynge tyme] is in wintir and is in þe laste hole woke tofore mydwinter day. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 73 On Midwinter-day, eight hundred years back. 1892 Ld. Tennyson To Master of Balliol iii. 4 in Œnone On this white midwinter day. 1988 Ecology 69 1196/2 Ten hours..was assumed the maximum time available to forage during a midwinter day in southern Arizona. 1991 Gardener Jan. 36/2 In a fruit growing area there used to be a general smell of tar oil on calm midwinter days as winter washes were applied on all the farms. < as lemmas |
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