单词 | to give a woman a green gown |
释义 | > as lemmasto give a woman a green gown A dress stained green from rolling in grass. Chiefly in to give a woman a green gown: to engage in amorous play with a woman; (euphemistic) to deflower, deprive a woman of her virginity. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (intransitive)] > other specific games to give a woman a green gowna1586 to play the dozens1928 to play chicken1949 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > of woman > symbol of green gowna1586 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxix. 135 Amonge the nunnes of the grene cote He wente to lande out of his prety bote And wedde there one that was comen a newe.] a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H2v Then some grene gowns are by the lasses worne In chastest plaies, till home they walke a rowe. 1596 A. Munday tr. 2nd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. v At length he was so bolde as to giue her a greene gowne, when I feare me she lost the flower of her chastitie. 1599 George a Greene sig. C1v Madge pointed to meete me in your wheate close..And first I saluted her with a greene gowne, And after fell as hard a wooing As if the Priest had bin at our backs, to haue married vs. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F6 Many a green-gown has been given. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Green gown, a throwing of young Lasses on the Grass and Kissing them. 1714 A. Smith Hist. Lives Highway-men 281 Our Gallant being dispos'd to give his Lady a Green Gown, she deny'd his Civility. 1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 73 Servants..meeting their acquaintance according to Appointment in the Fields, and giving and taking Green Gowns from each other. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. vi. liv. 286 The boy..flung himself upon Juliet, with all his force; protesting that he would give her a green gown. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Green Gown, the supposed badge of the loss of virginity, Roxb. 1919 Psychoanalytic Rev. 6 141 To many of the peasantry of Europe, a green gown means a tousel in the new-mown hay. Sometimes to give one a green gown means to go beyond the bounds of innocent playfulness. 1980 A. T. Hatto in tr. W. Von Eschenbach Parzifal 438 Gawan should have given her a green-gown there and then, as has happened to many a fine lady since. < as lemmas |
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