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单词 rood day
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Rood Dayn.

Brit. /ˈruːd ˌdeɪ/, U.S. /ˈrud ˌdeɪ/, Scottish English /ˈrud ˌde/
Forms: see rood n. and day n.; also Scottish 1800s Reeday. Also with lower-case initial in the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rood n., day n.
Etymology: < rood n. + day n. Compare earlier Holy Rood day n. at holy rood n.1 Compounds 2.
Now chiefly Scottish and historical.
(a) The day on which the Exaltation of the Cross is celebrated (14 September); = Holy Cross day n. at Holy cross n. Compounds; cf. exaltation n.. (b) The day celebrating the Invention of the Cross (3 May), which commemorates the reputed finding of the Cross of Christ by Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, in a.d. 326. Cf. invention n. 1b.
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1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 296 The xiiij day of September, wes the Rudeday, in Halyrudhous, to the kingis offerand.
1520 Extr. Rec. Stirling (1887) 4 To be pait on the morne eftir the Rud day.
1597 Returne fr. Parnassus ii. i 739 And a drye cowe shall be 7 years oulde at the nexte roode daye.
1643 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1872) II. 5 The first quarters payment beginning at Ruid Day nixt.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 187/2 The Dominican Monks..Fast seven Months together from Rood Day in September to Easter.
1711 Extr. Rec. Aberdeen (1872) 344 The citizens to be advertised to enter ther children..at Roodday and Lambas.
?1780 'Merry Andrew at Tam-Tallan' Antient & New Hist. Buck-Haven (new ed.) iii. 22 Upon the Rood-day..early in the morning.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Rude The 14th of September is still called Rude day in Lanarkshire... In Roxb. Rude-day is the 25th September, which corresponds with the 14th old style.
1841 R. T. Hampson Medii Ævi Kal. I. 269 The day of the Invention of the Cross, and one of the Rode or Rood days.
1926 M. Summers Hist. Witchcraft & Demonol. (1973) iv. 164 Roodmas or Rood Day is 3 May, the Feast of the Invention of Holy Cross.
1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 5 May 21 Feill an Roid, the Feast of the Rood (or Holy Cross), is the term used in many Gaelic songs for Rood Day (14 September), better known to many hill-men nowadays as ‘the Day of the Roaring’, the beginning of the red-deer rut!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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