| 单词 | candlemas-ball | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascandlemas-ball   attributive and in other combinations, as  candlemas-day,  candlemas-eve,  candlemas-even,  candlemas-night,  candlemas-season, etc., and in Scottish  candlemas-ball,  candlemas blaze,  candlemas crown,  candlemas king,  candlemas offering (see quots.). ΚΠ c1230						 (?a1200)						    Ancrene Riwle 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 		(1962)	 210  				Condelmeasse dei. 1389    in  J. T. Smith  & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds 		(1870)	 54  				After candilmesse day. a1475    Bk. Curtasye 		(Sloane 1986)	 l. 394 in  Babees Bk. 		(2002)	  i. 311  				Bryng in fyre on alhalawgh day, To condulmas euen, I dar welle say. c1525    R. Arnold Chron. 		(new ed.)	 sig. Ci  				Candylmas day next after the kynge and the sayd duke of burgoyn bare theyr candyls. 1655    H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 129  				February the 2d. (you may if you please call it Candlemas night) had been time out of minde celebrated at Court with somewhat more then ordinary solemnity. 1843    T. Carlyle Past & Present  ii. vii. 101  				In that Candlemas season. 1857    Chambers's Information for People 		(new ed.)	 II. 466  				Candlemasday is a holiday at the public offices. < as lemmas | 
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