| 单词 | summer game light |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer game light summer game light n. now historical a light burnt in church on the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (Midsummer Day, June 24); cf. sense 1. [After post-classical Latin lumen aestivale (1438 or earlier in a British source (Yorkshire)).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > candle or light > [noun] > for feast of nativity of St. John Baptist summer game light1464 1464 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 103 (note) Lumini vocato Somer-game light. 1519 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 103 To the Somer-game lyght in my parishe chirche ij s. 1892 W. C. Hazlitt Livery Companies 656 We hear of the summer-game light, the young men's light, the bachelors' light, the married men's light, [etc.]. 1996 R. Hutton Stations of Sun xxiv. 247 Some Yorkshire communities used part of them [sc. the proceeds] to maintain a special ‘summer game light’. < as lemmas |
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