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单词 clerk-ale
释义

clerk-ale

English

Noun

clerk-ale (plural clerk-ales)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
    • 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry
      That ALE is festival, appears from its sense in composition; as, amongst others, in the words Lecet-ale, Lamb-ale, Whitson-ale, Clerk-ale, and Church-ale

References

clerk-ale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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