blind man's holidayn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blindman n., holiday n.

Etymology: < the genitive of blindman n. + holiday n.

A humorous phrase for the time just before candles are lighted, when it is too dark to work, and one is obliged to rest or ‘take a holiday’; formerly used more widely.

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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall

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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 42 What will not blinde Cupid doe in the night which is his blindmans holiday?

1611 in J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana iii. §18 The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candle, is commonly called blindman's holiday.

1866 Aunt Judy's Mag. Oct. 358 At meal-times, or in blindman's holiday, when no work was to be done.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	blind mans holiday
释义	blind man's holidayn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blindman n., holiday n. Etymology: < the genitive of blindman n. + holiday n. A humorous phrase for the time just before candles are lighted, when it is too dark to work, and one is obliged to rest or ‘take a holiday’; formerly used more widely. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall nighteOE evengloamOE eveningOE gloamingc1000 darknessa1382 twilighting1387 crepusculum1398 crepusculec1400 darkc1400 twilight1412 sky1515 twinlightc1532 day-going?1552 cockshut1592 shutting1598 blind man's holiday1599 candle-lighting1605 gropsing1606 nightfall1612 dusk1622 torchlighta1656 candlelight1663 crepuscle1665 shut1667 mock-shade1669 close1696 duskish1696 glooma1699 setting1699 dimmit1746 to-fall of the day or night1748 darklins1767 even-close1781 mirkning1790 gloaming-shot1793 darkening1814 bat-flying time1818 gloama1821 between-light1821 settle1822 dayfall1823 evenfall1825 onfall1825 owl-hoot1832 glooming1842 darkfall1884 smokefall1936 dusk-light1937 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 42 What will not blinde Cupid doe in the night which is his blindmans holiday? 1611 in J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana iii. §18 The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candle, is commonly called blindman's holiday. 1866 Aunt Judy's Mag. Oct. 358 At meal-times, or in blindman's holiday, when no work was to be done. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1599
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