| 单词 | pope night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPope Night Pope Night n. U.S. now chiefly historical the evening of the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot; cf. Pope Day n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc. day of truce1486 Evil May Dayc1590 Bonfire Night1661 Pope Day1769 Pope Night1773 the Fourth (of July)1779 Town Taking Day1788 Independence Day1791 Independent Day1803 Guy Fawkes day1825 Bastille Day1837 Trafalgar Day1837 Turkey Day1870 Canada Day1882 Juneteenth1890 flag-day1894 Patriots' Day1894 Remembrance Day1895 twelfth1896 Quatorze Juillet1899 quatorze1915 Armistice Day1918 Poppy Day1921 Remembrance Sunday1925 VJ-day1944 Commonwealth Day1958 1773 J. Rowe Jrnl. 5 Nov. in Lett. & Diary (1903) 254 Very quiet for a Pope Night. 1851 J. G. Whittier in National Era 2 Jan. 2 We have seen the children of our Catholic neighbors as busy as their Protestant playmates in collecting, by ‘hook or by crook’, the materials for pope night bonfires. 1907 Nation 24 Oct. 376 Until very recently, at least, the boys of Portsmouth, N.H., have celebrated Pope Night, without knowing or caring much about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. 2000 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 11 Aug. 13 a Many Maine communities celebrated ‘Pope Night’ each November, with torchlight parades and a ceremonial burning in effigy of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. < as lemmas |
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