单词 | to stick the church |
释义 | > as lemmasto stick the church c. transitive. English regional. Without with. to stick the church: to decorate a church with evergreens at Christmas. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1711 in S. Denne Hist. Particulars Lambeth Parish (1795) 384/2 To Tearve for sticking the church. 1781 in J. C. Cox & R. M. Serjeantson Hist. Church Holy Sepulchre Northampton (1897) iv. 62 Greens to stick the church. 1891 Lincs. Notes & Queries 2 20 The churches were decorated with box and other evergreens stuck into holes in the pew tops. Several old people here remember this church being so decorated, and call it ‘sticking the church’. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Stick, to decorate with evergreens, &c. ‘We allus sticks th' Church at Christmas’. 1908 T. Wright Life Col. Fred Burnaby i. 8 At Christmas time he liked to help when the ladies were ‘sticking the church’, as it was queerly called. 1997 M. Sutton Lincs. Calendar 214 Church Sticking Churches are still decorated at Christmas time but in a different way to the old custom of ‘Sticking the Church’. < as lemmas |
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