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单词 rere-supper
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rere-suppern.

Brit. /rɪəˈsʌpə/, U.S. /rɪ(ə)rˈsəpər/
Forms: Middle English reere-soper, Middle English rere-soper, Middle English rere-sopere, Middle English rer-soper, Middle English rer-supper, Middle English–1500s rere-souper, Middle English–1600s 1800s– rere-supper, late Middle English resouper (transmission error), 1500s–1600s reare-supper, 1600s rear-supper, 1600s reer-supper.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rere super.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rere super (last quarter of the 13th cent. (in the passage translated in quot. a1400) or earlier) < rere- rear- comb. form + super supper n.1 In later spellings frequently assimilated to rear- comb. form and supper n.1
Now historical.
A late supper, the final meal of the day; spec. a lavish meal taken late at night in addition to the usual evening meal. Also figurative. Cf. rere-banquet n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > retiring or secondary meal
voideec1374
rere-suppera1393
void1461
rere-banquet1530
after-meala1600
after-supper1600
postpast1603
rere feast?1615
arrière supper1889
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 911 (MED) Thanne is he redy in the weie Mi reresouper forto make.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 7259 (MED) Rere sopers yn pryuyte [Fr. les rere supers en priuité] with glotonye echone þey be.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 2260 (MED) Sardanapall..Callid in his tyme a prynce off baudrie, Fond rere soperis [v.r. rersuppers] and fether beddis soffte.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 8 (MED) She wold haue rere sopers whanne her fader and moder was a-bedde.
a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 9 (MED) My complexcyon a cordyth to eny mete, But reresopers j refowse, lest j shuld surfett.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv Eschewynge bankettes, reresoupers, ioncryes betwyxe meales.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 110 b With banquetyng from daie to daie, with sumptuous reare suppers.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G4 v Then a set breakfast, then dinner, then afternoones nunchings, a supper, & a rere-supper.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xii. 55 Immediatly vpon a banket, the Physician Thessalus made a reare-supper.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 50 Reer Suppers were my Solace: I suited my youthful Fancy to jovial Company.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iv. 90 He was guilty of the enormity of rere-suppers.
1830 G. P. R. James Darnley II. xiii. 297 Prognostications of a rere supper.
1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) xxiv. 278 Master Sheriff wants his rere-supper.
1948 Mod. Lang. Rev. 43 248 I might add that by the time of More and Horman an after-supper had become a rere-supper.
1991 L. Hunter in C. A. Wilson Banquetting Stuffe iii. 39 A rere-supper seems to have been more specifically for men alone, during which they simply became very drunk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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