| 单词 | valentine's day |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(St.) Valentine's day a. (St.) Valentine's day, the 14th of February.Frequently mentioned with reference to the choosing of sweethearts or the mating of birds. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year > St. Valentine's Day (St.) Valentine's dayc1381 Saint Valentide1596 Valentine-day1725 c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 309 For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make. c1430 Lydgate's Min. Poems (1911) I. 304 A balade made..in wyse of chesing loues at Saint Valentynes day. c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 127 The xiiij day of Feuerell, that is to say vpon seynt Valentyne's day, the Kyng com to London. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiiiv And after saynt Valentynes day it is tyme to graffe both peeres and wardens. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 47 To morrow is saint Valentines day. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xiii. 206 As some..embrace the first they meet on Valentine's day. 1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xiii. 160 Such is the Observation of Candlemas-Day, such is Childermas-Day, such Valentine's Day, and some others. 1822 R. Nares Gloss. 538 The number of letters sent on Valentine's Day, makes several additional sorters necessary at the Post Office in London. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 131 How blithe would she have been to see this happy St Valentine's morning! 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 373 Valentining, children going from house to house, the morning of St. Valentine's day, soliciting small gratuities. < as lemmas |
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