单词 | carnival thursday |
释义 | > as lemmasCarnival Thursday Carnival Thursday n. the Thursday before Quinquagesima (see note at sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > Thursday before Carnival Thursday1601 1601–2 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 41 They..arrived there upon madd thursday, otherwise called Carnivall thursday: wch is the thursday imediately before Shrove sonday. 1893 C. E. Waters Queen of Adriatic viii. 141 On Carnival Thursday, April 2, 1355, the old-time ceremony of immolating an ox and twelve boar-pigs, which symbolized the Patriarch of Aquileia and his canons, was celebrated in the Piazza, which was filled with a brilliant assemblage. < as lemmas |
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