wassail 的 3 个定义
- a salutation wishing health to a person, used in England in early times when presenting a cup of drink or when drinking to the person.
- a festivity or revel with drinking of healths.
- liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions, especially spiced ale, as on Christmas Eve and Twelfth-night.
- Archaic. a song sung in wassailing.
- to revel with drinking.
- to drink to the health or success of; toast.
wassail 近义词
celebration
celebrate, toast
更多wassail例句
- By the time he has gorged himself with wassail, as is his wont, he will not know an old Countess from a young one.
- I have already arranged with an artist to do some pictures, and I remember I particularly ordered a robin and a wassail.
- The wassail bowl originally meant a health-drinking vessel, and is of very ancient origin.
- Deep into the night the drunken revelry resounded over the lake, until Father Olmedo remonstrated against such godless wassail.
- And let the Wassail Cup abound, Whene'er the mummers' time comes round.