| 单词 | bartholomew-ware |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBartholomew-ware 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). ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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