单词 | quasimodo |
释义 | Quasimodon.1 In full Quasimodo Sunday. The Sunday following Easter Sunday. Cf. Low Sunday n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > 40 days up to Ascension > [noun] > first week in > first Sunday in Low Sunday1431 mois1435 Quasimodo Sunday1607 Low Easterdaya1613 Renewal Sunday1862 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 445 The day of Quasimodo [Fr. Le iour de Quasimodo], the armie marcheth towards Bicocque. 1688 H. Wharton tr. G. Dellon Hist. Inquisition Goa xxxvi. 65 This Prelate..arrived at last at Lisbon, towards the Holy Week: But since in that time the Tribunals are not open, I was yet forced to have patience till after Quasimodo Sunday. a1773 A. Butler Moveable Feasts Catholic Church (1774) vii. iv. 441 Quasi-modo Sunday, is the Octave of Easter-day, and so called from the first Words of the Introit at Mass. 1841 Times 18 June 7/3 These allies presented themselves at the gate of the bridge, on the day of Quasimodo (the 3d of May, 1479), before Mass. 1887 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 702/1 The Garrison had the whole of Quasimodo Sunday to reflect on the fate that awaited them. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Connecticut section) 15 The ensemble will sing..at the regularly scheduled Quasimodo Sunday service of Trinity Episcopal Church. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quasimodon.2 Surfing. A position in which the surfer rides hunched at the front of the board with head down, one arm forward and one arm back; a manoeuvre in which the surfer adopts this position. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer kick-out1801 ride1883 side-slip1913 surf1917 slide1935 pull-out1957 quasimodo1960 head dip1962 nose-riding1962 rolling1962 spinner1962 stalling1962 toes over1962 cutback1963 Eskimo roll1964 re-entry1968 right1968 rollercoaster1968 barrel roll1971 hold-down1982 railing1983 cross-stepping1990 cross-step1994 turtle roll2001 1960 Surfer 13 (caption) First the ‘Mysteriouso’..And then the ‘El Telephono’..And Now Micky Munoz Proudly Presents the Forward-Squatting–Left Arm ‘Quasimoto’. 1963 S. Szabados in J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 18/1 If you are a ‘hot dogger’, you're an expert, you can perform quick turns, head dips, quasimodos. 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 31 Another form of crouch is the Quasimodo. 2006 Manly Daily (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 Nov. 97 It ended with the American lifeguards putting on a show of cutbacks, plank walking, quasimodos and every other bewildering movement imaginable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11607n.21960 |
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