单词 | sabba-day |
释义 | Sabba-dayn. U.S. colloquial. Now rare. = Sabbath-day n. 2. Also in combinations, as Sabba-day house n. a house used for rest in the interval between church services; = noon-house n. at noon n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > other parts > [noun] > church house church house1327 Sabba-day house1876 church building1888 c1772 T. Burbank in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1920) LVI. 292 Thare was in the yeare 1738 a great athcak one sabbady. 1858 Harper's Mag. Nov. 856/2 A thousand terrible thoughts rushed into her mind;..above all, the loss of her ‘Sabber-day’ dinner. 1868 H. W. Beecher Norwood 47 Duties never conflict, you said, only Sabby-day morning last. 1876 J. E. Todd John Todd 40 Near by were a number of rough, stone-built ‘Sabba’-day houses, where they flocked at noon, for warmth in winter (they had chimneys), and coolness in summer. 1891 A. M. Earle Sabbath in Puritan New Eng. 102 The ‘noon-house’, or ‘Sabba-day house’..was a place of refuge in the winter time, at the noon interval between two services. 1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 5 I knew that, when I next dressed, it would be in the prim and stiff and spotless garments befitting what Grandmother often said her mother used to call ‘Sabba' Day’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.c1772 |
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