morris-dancen. a rustic or grotesquedance in which the performers black-ened their faces andwore fanciful cos-tumes with bells.(The dance was fre-quently performed atWhitsuntide. a reli-gious festival held in early summer.)(常在圣靈降臨節(jié)舉行的)鄉(xiāng)間土風舞或滑稽舞(源出西班牙的摩爾人)。 △H.V.2.4.23:“And let us do it with no show of fear. / No. with no more than if weheard that England / Were busied with a Whitsunmorris-dance;”但是我們進行此事,不可露出絲毫恐懼之狀.萬萬不可,而是好像我們只是聽說英國人正在忙于舉行圣靈降臨節(jié)的一場滑稽舞。 
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