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单词 royal oak
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royal oakn.

Brit. /ˌrɔɪəl ˈəʊk/, U.S. /ˌrɔɪ(ə)l ˈoʊk/
Forms: see royal adj. and n. and oak n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: royal adj., oak n.
Etymology: < royal adj. + oak n.The name of ‘the Royal Oak’ was given to the tree at Boscobel in Shropshire, in which Charles II hid himself during his flight after the battle of Worcester in 1651. With sense 3 compare Robur Carolinum n.
1. A large or stately oak tree; (in later use) spec. the English or pedunculate oak, Quercus robur. Now rare.In quot. 1664: an oak tree from a royal forest.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks
red oakOE
cerre-tree1577
gall-tree1597
robur1601
kermes1605
live oak1610
white oak1610
royal oak1616
swamp-oak1683
grey oak1697
rock oak1699
chestnut oak1703
water oak1709
Spanish oak1716
turkey-oak1717
willow oak1717
iron oak1724
maiden oak1725
scarlet oak1738
black jack1765
post oak1775
durmast1791
mountain chestnut oak1801
quercitron oak1803
laurel oak1810
mossy-cup oak1810
rock chestnut oak1810
pin oak1812
overcup oak1814
overcup white oak1814
bur oak1815
jack oak1816
mountain oak1818
shingle-oak1818
gall-oak1835
peach oak1835
golden oak1838
weeping oak1838
Aleppo oak1845
Italian oak1858
dyer's oak1861
Gambel's Oak1878
maul oak1884
punk oak1884
sessile oak1906
Garry oak1908
roble1908
1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4 Tall Cedars, Cypres, Pine and royall Okes, With country Elmes, and Ash for plow and yokes.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxxii. 114 The fittest sacrifice for the Royal-Oaks, and their Hamadryad's.
1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2422 The Royal Oak..overspreading Subnascent Trees and young Suckers.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 215/1 Q. regia, the Royal Oak. Leaves stalked,..heart-shaped, wavy... From Koordistan.
1898 3rd Ann. Rep. Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. 518 It is also late in life before the royal oak, Quercus Robur, assumes the rough-bark condition.
1900 Meehan's Monthly Nov. 167/1 England has good cause to be proud of the Royal Oak, Quercus Robur.
1969 Gardeners Chron. & New Horticulturalist 21 Feb. 35/2 It is thought that the most appropriate tree to plant (except in smokey atmospheres) will be the royal oak, Quercus pedunculata.
2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical.
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1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience.
1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery.
1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery.
1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy.
1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances.
2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men.
3. Astronomy. With capital initials and usually with the. (The English name of) the former constellation Robur Carolinum. Now historical.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Robur Carolinum
Robur Carolinum1702
royal oak1712
1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling vii. 89 To these 15 are not long since added 12 Constellations, made up of the fixed Stars about the fourth Pole, and not visible to us, viz. the Phenix, the Crane..and the Royal Oak.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487/1 The new Southern Constellations... Robur Carolinum, The Royal Oak.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 323 Our constellation of the Royal Oak is said to have found its way in new copies of the old Hindu treatises, into the company of the Seven Sages.
1907 R. S. Ball Great Astronomers 168 Halley..endeavoured to squeeze a new constellation into the group around the southern pole which he styled ‘The Royal Oak’.
1995 P. Whitfield Mapping of Heavens iii. 88 In Restoration England, Edward Sherburne and Edmond Halley devised respectively a Royal Heart and a Royal Oak in commemoration of Charles I and Charles II.
4. A sprig of oak worn to commemorate the restoration of Charles II in 1660.Recorded earliest in, and now only in, Royal Oak Day n. at Compounds.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > plants
rose of Sharon1626
Sharon's rose1640
royal oak1759
Flanders poppy1918
palm1918
Easter lily1926
1759 S. Paterson Catal. Orig. Manuscripts J. Henley 25 Royal Oak Day.
1777 in J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 354 Royal Oak The Whigs to provoke.
1825 London Lit. Gaz. 30 July 483/1 It [sc. May] is happier than the rest of the months in its 29th day, when we wear royal oak, and thank it for a Restoration.
1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 490 Each young loyalist is armed with a nettle..with which..are coerced those unfortunates who are unprovided with ‘royal oak’.

Compounds

Royal Oak Day n. now chiefly historical the anniversary of the Stuart restoration to the English throne on 29 May 1660, traditionally celebrated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves (see note in etymology); = Oak-apple Day n. at oak-apple n. Compounds.
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Candlemas1014
May Day1267
All Souls' Dayc1300
midsummer evena1400
firstc1400
Beltane1424
midsummer eve1426
quarter day1435
Beltane1456
mid-Sundaya1475
madding-day1568
Lord Mayor's day1591
Barnaby bright1595
Lammas-eve1597
All Saints' Night1607
Handsel Monday1635
distaff's day1648
long Barnabya1657
St. Valentine's eve1671
leet-day1690
All Fools' Day1702
Boxing Day1743
April Fool's Day1748
Royal Oak Day1759
box day1765
Oak-apple Day1802
All Souls' Eve1805
mischief night1830
Shick-shack Day1847
chalk-back day1851
call night1864
Nut-Monday1867
Arbor Day1872
April Fool's1873
Labour Day1884
Martinmas Sunday1885
call day1886
Samhain1888
Juneteenth1890
Mother's Day1890
Father's Day1908
Thinking Day1927
Punkie night1931
Tweede Nuwejaar1947
1759*Royal Oak Day [see sense 4].
1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 382 Those who did not conform to the usages of the ‘Royal Oak day’ were pelted with rotten eggs.
2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 May d4 The bars continue to celebrate Royal Oak Day with prize draws, specials and live music.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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