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单词 old lady day
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Old Lady Day
d. Designating a specified time or day of the year calculated according to the unreformed Julian calendar, called Old Style after the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582 (1752 in Britain): see new style n., old style n. Frequently in Old Christmas Day, Old Christmas Eve, Old Lady Day, Old May-day, Old Michaelmas (day), Old Midsummer, etc. (between a.d. 1900 and 2100, these are 13 days after the equivalent days in the Gregorian calendar).
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1752 Kentish Post 29 Aug. f. 1/1 The Fair at Canterbury (commonly call'd Jack and Joan's Fair)..will be kept this Year on the 10th Day of October, Old Michaemas [sic] Day.
1783 W. Owen New Bk. of Fairs 65 Monday before Old Midsummer July 5, for sheep and horned cattle.
1799 A. Young Agric. Lincs. vii. 150 Begin to weed about old May-day.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1324 September 26..Old Holyrood.
1861 Times 16 Feb. The old style is still retained in the accounts of Her Majesty's Treasury... The first day of the financial year is the 5th of April, being old Lady Day.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. vi. iv. 303 I haven't turned my tongue in my head to the shape of a real good song since Old Midsummer night.
1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 5 Jan. 18/3 On Old Christmas Eve, tomorrow night, daffodils, hops and elders are supposed to shoot mysterious sprouts through snow and frozen ground.
1953 R. Macaulay Let. 8 Oct. (1962) 114 Did you know that old St James's Day, August 5th, used to be Oyster Day?
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 680/2 A few southern families make some effort to celebrate..6 January, a day sometimes called ‘Old Christmas’.
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