单词 | scarlet-day |
释义 | > as lemmasscarlet-day scarlet-day n. (also †scarlet-gown day) an occasion in university or civic life observed by the public wearing of state or official robes of scarlet. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > special or ceremonial days Easter terma1387 station day1560 lecture-day1616 scarlet-day1632 charter-day1817 field day1821 Thing-day1875 1632–33 in Publ. Colon. Soc. Mass. VIII. 361 [That the lecturer should preach on all the] scarlet days, as they name them. 1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) ii. iii. 663* The Scarlet-Gown Days in the University of Oxford. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) II. xxxix. 51 He preached it upon a scarlet day, when the vice-chancellor and all the doctors go to church in red. 1888 Daily News 11 June 5/7 In University parlance it was a Scarlet Day. < as lemmas |
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