eisteddfod
/ahy-steth-vod, ey-steth-/US // aɪˈstɛð vɒd, eɪˈstɛð- //UK // (aɪˈstɛdfəd, Welsh aɪˈstɛðvɔd) //
艺术节,音乐会,音乐节,舞蹈节
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural eis·tedd·fods, eis·tedd·fod·au [ey-steth-vod-ahy, ahy-steth-]. /ˌeɪ stɛðˈvɒd aɪ, ˌaɪ stɛð-/.
- : an annual festival, with competitions among poets and musicians.
Examples
Finally, eight other preachers from the eisteddfod came and announced to the Elder their intention.
She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod.
The last commission was issued by Queen Elizabeth in 1568, but the eisteddfod fell into abeyance during the seventeenth century.
In modern Welsh, a bard is a poet whose vocation has been recognized at an Eisteddfod.
In Cathays Park there is also a “gorsedd” or bardic circle of huge monoliths erected in connexion with the eisteddfod of 1899.
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