| 单词 | midwinter night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidwinter night midwinter night n. (also midwinter's night) †(a) = midwinter eve n. (obsolete); (b) a night in midwinter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun] midwinter nighta1200 yule night1303 midwinter evea1400 Christmas Evenc1400 midwinter evena1450 yule-even1473 Christmas Eve1548 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 7 Swo abiden ure helendes tocume þat neihlacheð..and beð on mide wintres niht. 1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 72 (MED) Þer..i þe bare On midwenter nith, In maydened with-outen kare. a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 146 (MED) Þe derknes of þe moneschine in a mist at midwinters niȝt. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 51 Þys geanology þat ys red yn mydwyntyr-nyght. 1864 W. C. Bryant Thirty Poems 195 These are the northern lights, such as thou seest In the midwinter nights. 1917 S. Sassoon Old Huntsman 22 It was past twelve on a mid-winter night. 1978 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 38 412 At the end of the story..he traces the same course in the mid-winter night. < as lemmas |
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