单词 | oyster board |
释义 | > as lemmasoyster board oyster board n. now historical a long, narrow board or table used for displaying oysters for sale; (also derogatory) the communion table introduced to churches by English Protestants after the Reformation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > altar > [noun] > communion table > in reformed churches Lord's Table1533 altar1549 oyster board1563 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 984/2 In the same place, he proueth a propitiatory sacrifice, and that vpon an altare, and no Oyster board. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) I. i. 40 Tables which the Papists irreverently termed oyster boards. 1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 347 Oyster board, mediaeval term for a table used for opening and preparing oysters. < as lemmas |
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