Michaelmas

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈmɪkəlməs/    美 /ˈmɪkəlməs/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A Christian feast celebrated on the 29th of September in honour of the archangel Michael.
    — To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]
  2. Ellipsis of Michaelmas term. Ireland,UK,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis

词形变化

Michaelmases plural Mihilmas alternative,obsolete

词源

From Middle English Michelmasse, Myghelmesse; equivalent to Michael + -mas.
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