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单词 butter week
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Butter Week
Butter Week n. a festival celebrated by Eastern Slavic countries and communities, esp. those belonging to the Orthodox Church, in the week preceding Great Lent.Meat is prohibited during Butter Week, and it is the last week that dairy products can be consumed prior to the Lent fast. [After Old Russian, Russian Maslenica (1543 or earlier; < maslenyj (adjective) of or relating to butter + -ica suffix forming nouns); compare also the considerably rarer Maslenaja nedelja, lit. ‘butter week’ (14th cent. or earlier).]
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Butter Week1589
1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 337 The weeke before Shroftide, they call the Butter weeke.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. I. 384 The Butter-week..when eating of flesh is forbidden and butter is allowed, is the week immediately preceding the great Fast of Lent.
1843 tr. J. G. Kohl Russia & Russians, 1842 II. xxv. 136 ‘Forgive me! it is the Butter-week!’ is the excuse invariably pleaded by every tipsy person.
2013 @ATasteOfUkraine 16 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Have you had a chance to stop by and celebrate Butter week with us today? We have fresh hot blini.
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