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单词 bartholomew
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Bartholomewn.

Brit. /bɑːˈθɒləmjuː/, U.S. /bɑrˈθɑləˌmju/
Forms: Also 1500s Bartelmewe, Bartylmew, Bartilmew, 1600s Bartholmew, Barthlomew; and, after French Barthélemy, 1600s– Bartlemy /ˈbɑːt(ə)lmɪ/, 1600s Bartelemy, 1700s Bart'lemy.
Etymology: partly < Latin Bartholomæus, Greek Βαρθολομαῖος; partly < French Barthélemy.
a. Name of one of the twelve apostles, the festival in whose honour is held on the 24th of August ( Bartholomew-day, Bartholomew-tide).
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > St. Bartholemew (24 August) > [noun]
Bartholomew-tide1552
Bartholomew-day1678
1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. 61 ij challeses were stolne owte of the churche abowt Bartelmewe tyde.
c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1288 What a buzzing you make? as if you were a fly at Bartholomew tyde at a Butchers stall.
1678 Trial Coleman 80 Where was you the last Bartholomew day?
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxvi. 253 It being the Bartlemytide vacation.
b. On this day, in 1572, took place the great massacre of the Protestants in France.
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1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III 63 A glimpse like that Bartholomew in France..All such slaughters from thence call'd Bartelemies..in a perpetuall Stigma of that Butchery.
c. On the same day, in 1662, the penalties of the English Act of Uniformity ( Bartholomew Act) came into force.
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1711 B. Sacheverell Sacheverell against Sacheverell 15 Being silenc'd by the Bartholomew-Act, he retir'd to Stalbridge.
d. At the same time of year, a fair was held annually from 1133 to 1855, at West Smithfield ( Bartholomew Fair); whence the name was applied to articles sold at it, e.g. Bartholomew-baby or Bartholomew-puppet (a doll), Bartholomew-boar, Bartholomew-pig, Bartholomew-ware; see also quot. 1777.The compound Bartholomew-beef listed in N.E.D. (1885) appears to represent an erroneous transcription of Martlemasse beefe in H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck (1648).
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 232 Thou horson little tydee Bartholemew borepigge.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. vi. 14 in Wks. II For the very calling it a Bartholomew-pigge, and to eat it so, is a spice of Idolatry.
1650 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) i. i. 2 Fraighted with meer Bartholomew ware, with trite and trivial phrases only.
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 30 Rolling their Eyes (like a Bartlemy-Puppet, without so much as moving the Head).
1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 51 Men..were dressed up like fantastical antics, and women like Bartholomew-babies.
1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 43 A choice Droll or Puppet-Shew at Bart'lemy-Fair.
1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 177 There are four floors [in the Fleet]..besides the cellar-floor, called Bartholomew-Fair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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