| 单词 | to stand on the maid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stand on the maid 4. An unmarried woman, a spinster, esp. one of mature years. †to stand on the maid: (of a woman) to remain single (obsolete). Cf. maiden n. 4. Now only in old maid n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] maid1603 maiden lady1628 bachelora1637 feme sole1714 spinstress1716 maidena1802 spin1842 sworn virgin1910 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E1 To dye maydes too! O horrible! ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses vi. 87 Because thou shalt no more stand on the Maid [ἐπεὶ οὔτοι ἔτι δην παρθένος ἔσσεαι]. 1648 Parish Reg. St. John Maddermarket, Norwich (MS) A maid almost a hundred yeare old, buried 14 Nov. Anno dni 1648. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 124 For this, when ripe for Marriage, he delay'd Her nuptial Bands, and kept her long a Maid. 1747 Gen. Advertiser 4 July The Match [at Cricket]..between the Maids of Charlton and the Maids of Singleton..will be play'd in the Artillery-Ground. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. v. 48 Miss Lucy St. Aubin lived and died a maid for his sake. View more context for this quotation 1838 T. Carlyle Coll. Lett. (1985) X. 154 A queer broad ancient maid, farmeress who ‘makes draining-tiles’. 1905 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Maid. < as lemmas |
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