单词 | whitsun lord |
释义 | > as lemmasWhitsun lord Whitsun lord n. now historical a young man who is chosen, together with the Whitsun lady, to preside over the festivities at a Whitsun Ale. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > presiding > at Whitsun festivities Whitsun lady1599 Whitsun lord1611 well-dresser1837 1611 Melismata Sig. F2v Ich haue beene twise our Whitson Lord. a1662 P. Heylyn Aerius Redivivus (1670) 163 An uproar had been made in Edenborough about the chusing of a Robbinhood (or a Whitson-Lord). 1905 Folk-lore Dec. 465 Was not this a degraded remains of the ‘Whitsun Lord’? 1996 R. Hutton Stations of Sun xxiv. 255 Christopher Windle, vicar of Bisley..had his son made the Whitsun lord in 1610. < as lemmas |
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