| 单词 | mothering sunday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMothering Sunday Mothering Sunday n. = mid-Lent Sunday n. at mid-Lent n. Compounds (see also quot. 1838 and quot. 1825 at sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting time or day > specific Mothering Day1644 Mothering Sunday1783 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > mid-Lent > [noun] > Sunday in Sunday of RefreshmentlOE midlenten Sunday1389 mid-Lent Sundayc1425 Phagiphanyc1450 mid-fast Sunday1480 Mothering Sunday1783 Refreshment Sunday1825 Refection Sunday1852 Laetare1870 1783 Gentleman's Mag. July 578/1 Some things customary... Of these, perhaps, are lambs-wool on Christmas-eve, furmety on Mothering-sunday, Braggot (which is a mixture of ale, sugar, and spices) at the festival of Easter. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. iii. 159 On Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers. 1880 A. J. Munby Dorothy iii. 66 Mary, it's twenty good year—twenty-one, come Mothering Sunday—'Since he was here at the farm. 1921 Spectator 19 Feb. 243/2 The fourth Sunday of Lent or Mothering Sunday, called ‘Laetare’ from the opening word of the introit. 1992 Alton (Surrey) Herald (BNC) 3 Apr. 13 Children and church helpers spent Saturday afternoon making certain there were enough traditional Mothering Sunday posies to go round for mothers of all ages. 2007 S. Elkin 100 Ideas Secondary School Assemblies i. 12 Mothering Sunday is a British, Christian tradition. The Americans celebrate ‘Mother's Day’ later in the year. < as lemmas |
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