单词 | roodmas |
释义 | Roodmasn. Chiefly Scottish. = Rood Day n., b. More fully Roodmas day. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Exaltation of Cross (14 September) > [noun] Holy Rood daya1225 Exaltation of the Cross1389 holy rooda1425 Rood Day1496 Roodmas1526 Roodsmas1622 Holy Cross day1662 rood1814 1526 Rec. Dumfries Burgh Court in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 87v, at Rudmes Ane boll of corn..to be deliverit to Dauid Kirkpatrik betuix this & the Rudmes nixt to cum. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §245 258 Fairs they have on Roodmas day, and on St. James's day. 1775 L. Shaw Hist. Moray iv. 192 They have..several public annual Fairs, as at Martinmas, Candlemas, Mid-Summer, Mary-mass in August, Rood-mass in September. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 11 Why, I had'n last Ridmas. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood vi. 110 My faither was a bauld man, but he wadna have stirred a fit over his ain doorstep on the night o' Rood-Mass for a king's ransom. 2000 R. Lennox Fighting Spirit of East Timor i. iv. 36 They moved on Roodmas (Holy Cross Day), 14 September 1948, a holy day that symbolised the triumph of the Cross over death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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