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单词 winter's day
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winter's day
e. With the first element in the genitive (winter's). Now chiefly designating parts of the day or night, as winter's day, winter's night, winter's morning, winter's evening, etc.
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eOE (Kentish) Will of Abba (Sawyer 1482) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 665 Ten hennfuglas, ðritig teapera gif hit wintres deg sie, sester fulne huniges.
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) viii. 32 On wintres timan [a1225 Winteney wintres tyman], þæt is fram þan anginne þæs monðes, þe is nouember gehaten, oþ eastran..on þære eahteþan tide þære nihte is to arisenne.
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 25 (MED) Als i lay in a winteris nyt..i sauȝ a selly syt.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 5959 (MED) Sche..halt hir clos the wyntres day.
a1449 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 779 The coolde wynterys nyght.
a1500 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 681 Nowe welcome somor..That hast thes wintres wedres ovire shake.
a1500 Life St. Alexius (Titus) (1878) l. 261 (MED) A-gayne xvij wynters ende..he schowlde owte of þis worllde wend.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. xiii. f. 37v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Blewe claye..(which hardelye drinketh vppe the winters water in long season).
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 25 Let Aesop fable in a winters night.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 7 The..churlish chiding of the winters winde. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 64 O, these flawes and starts..would well become A womans story, at a Winters fire. View more context for this quotation
1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd Introd. p. xiv [They] advise for a Winter's Felling, that the Timber neither rifts, casts, nor twines, because of the Cold of the Winter.
1795 W. Cowper Pairing Time 9 It chanced then on a winter's day, But warm, and bright, and calm as May.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) He is like a winter's day, short and dirty.
1832 Penny Story-Teller 1 Aug. 1/2 I like this interval between dinner and tea in a winter's afternoon.
1839 Farmers' Reg. Dec. 758/1 Should he leave his drains open, they..will, after a winter's freeze..be nearly filled up.
1878 N. Miner Triplets lxxi. 489 When we say winter's evening, then all at once we seem to gather round the old fire place and listen to the crackling log.
1909 Pop. Mech. Jan. 36/2 One of her most dreaded duties is to rise in the cold, grey dawn of a winter's morning to prepare an early breakfast.
1968 Life 12 July 13/3 (advt.) On a cold winter's evening, electric heat gives you nothing but silent comfort—and the chance to hear the snow falling.
2008 Jet 9 June 7/1 You came out on a cold winter's night in January in numbers this country had never seen.
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