单词 | palm cross |
释义 | palm crossn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > cross > monumental palm cross1442 high cross1457 pulpit cross1598 Calvary1815 1442 Dunster Church Contract in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) App. B. 514 (MED) The sayde paroch schall bryng all suffycyant materials withyn the palme crosse of the sayde Church. 1469–70 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 13 Pro emend' de le Palmecros. ?c1500 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 334 Palme Crose within the kirkegarth. 1525 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 39 Pd. for quarter of lyme to set up wtalle the palme crosse..xvjd. a1568 in Bannatyne MS 325/33 Ane pluche, ane paiddill, and ane palme corss. 2. A small cross made from palm or other material and used to commemorate Palm Sunday.In quot. 1855 denoting a more elaborate decoration. ΚΠ 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 345 Palm-crosses are also made, on that day [sc. Palm Sunday], of the twigs of the same tree [sc. the sallow]. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 124 Palm Crosses, ornamental combinations of small crosses made of the peeled willow palm, put together with pins and studded with the blossoms. These memorials of the season are then suspended from the top of the room. 1935 Times 13 Apr. 16/5 Distribution of Palm Crosses after each service. 1941 Man 41 36/1 In the Cornish examples, crossed rushes, palm-crosses, or straw are floated on the water. 1993 B. Pym Unsuitable Attachment (BNC) 118 As she passed the vicarage she was startled to see Faustina picking her way along the front wall with a palm cross in her mouth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1442 |
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