单词 | revelling night |
释义 | > as lemmasrevelling night General attributive, as revelling chamber, revelling place, revelling night, etc. ΚΠ 1395Revelyngchaumbre [see main sense]. 1441 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 263 (MED) The servauntis of the Crafte..have on holy dayes a revelyng hall & a drynkyng their, by the whych many of hem be not able to do no good werk a daye aftre. 1527 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1872) (modernized text) IV. ii. 1603 Repairing..an arbor in the Revelling Chamber within the tilt-yard at Greenwich. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido 1075 I thinke it was the diuels reuelling night. 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris iii. sig. D4 It was..revelling time, the time for drinking and carding and all manner of licentiousnesse. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxxiii. 207 Idle People,..do oftentimes cut down, and carry away fine straight Trees, to set up before some Ale-house, or Revelling-place. ?1786 New Election Budget 19 76/1 The port pledged promise of the revelling night was confirmed by the cool deliberate breakfast of the morning. 1822 S. L. Fairfield Siege Constantinople ii. xxiv. 38 But still, re-echoed by the rushing air, Peals the wild music of the revelling halls. 1864 J. H. Speke What led to Discov. Source of Nile 352 The sun went down, and the cows usurped the revelling-place. 1912 F. C. Goss Cincinnati I. ii. iii. 393 Munich was the fairy revelling place of art. 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Food section) 1 Twilight and night are reveling times for adults. < as lemmas |
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