单词 | rushbearing day |
释义 | > as lemmasrushbearing day General attributive, as rushbearing ceremony, rushbearing day, rushbearing procession, etc. ΚΠ c1581 in Yorks. Archaeol. Jrnl. (1900) 15 243 Upon a Sonday in the afternoone, being a rish-bearinge day at Rufforde, in somer last past, he sawe Trystrame Tyldesley daunce verie lustilye emonges yonge folkes. 1649 in Notes & Queries (1901) 9th Ser. 7 294/1 Ringinge on the Rushbering Day. 1827 21 July in Sharpe's London Mag. (1846) 18 June 188/1 I learnt from the old clerk that, according to annual custom, the rush-bearing procession would be in the evening. 1889 Graphic 22 June 682/2 On rush~bearing evening the churchyard wall is crowded with childish figures. 1908 Notes & Queries 30 May 438/1 Rush-bearing Sunday is still kept up at St. Mary Redcliffe at Bristol on Whitsunday. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic iii. 66 Later ecclesiastical injunctions prohibited the entry into the church or churchyard of Rush-bearing processions, Lords of Misrule and Summer Lords and Ladies. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 390/2 Rush-bearing ceremonies still survive in a few areas, notably at Grasmere and Ambleside in the Lake District, where they take place in late July or early August. < as lemmas |
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