单词 | winter evening |
释义 | > as lemmaswinter evening (e) Designating periods of time, parts of the day, etc., which fall in the winter, as winter evening, winter month, etc. See also winter day n., wintertide n., wintertime n. ΚΠ OE Genesis B 370 And moste [ic] ane tid ute weorðan, wesan ane winterstunde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 11 (MED) In þe lond þat hatte Tile..alle þe sixe wynter monþes is nyght. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1167 The blake wynter nyht. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 194 (MED) He wolde nouȝt abide in Scotland in wynter seson. ?a1500 in C. H. Hartshorne Anc. Metrical Tales (1829) 226 (MED) Other knaves..Shall take knockes ful good cheape, Come once winter nith. a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 The lang winter nicht. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 34 The wynter tropike or circle of retorning from the South. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 11 Thinges doone..in the Winter morninges. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 41 The Male [Hemp]..is made vp in bundels to be knockt and shaled in Winter euenynges. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xlii. 370/1 The like custome vsed hee in the winter season in his ieysts, and circuits throughout his Country. 1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. ii. i. 67/2 I tremble like a tender Lamb, In a cold Winter night. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 223 Marching in the stony Mountains, and in a Winter-season. 1786 J. Beekman Let. 13 Mar. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1064 The perfect Stagnation of Trade during the Winter Months. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 156 The rosy May, though fashionably a winter month, led on the smiling summer of nature, and June..was fast approaching. 1867 C. G. Mackenzie Random Rhymes 280 Leave we awhile the winter hours unsung. a1889 G. M. Hopkins in Dublin Rev. (1920) July–Sept. 46 They came from the south, Where winter-while is all forgot. 1928 Financial Times 22 Aug. 5/3 Restriction of output by stopping tapping for two months during the winter period is proposed. 1964 Economist 20 June 1364/2 This cold land where day ends at two o'clock on winter afternoons. 2010 Timber Home Living Dec. 43/2 During the long winter season, the family enjoys its outdoor sports—skiing, skating and hockey. < as lemmas |
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