单词 | rood light |
释义 | > as lemmasrood light rood light n. now historical a light maintained before or beside the rood, esp. in a rood loft. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > candle or light > [noun] > placed before or beside the rood rood light1434 beam-light1529 1434–5 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 32 Item, resiue of the Rode lychtte xxi lib. of holde wex. 1529 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 21 The residue to the upholdynge of the rode light. 1755 B. Willis Hist. & Antiq. Buckingham 281 He..gave two Cloths to the hight Altar, and Legacies to the Trinity, St. Sepulchres, St. John Baptist, and the Rood Lights. 1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 601 If any failed in reverence to the dean, they stood for a day and night before the rood-light. 1995 A. D. Brown Pop. Piety in Late Medieval Eng. v. 128 Endowments and bequests were left for the rood light. < as lemmas |
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