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WAYZG00SE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAYZG00SE , a See also:

term for the See also:annual See also:dinner and outing' of printers and their employes. The derivation of the term is doubtful. It may be a misspelling for " wasegoose," from See also:vase, See also:Mid. Eng. for " sheaf," thus meaning sheaf or See also:harvest See also:goose, the See also:bird that was See also:fit to eat at harvest-See also:time, the "stubble-goose " mentioned by See also:Chaucer in " The See also:Cook's See also:Prologue." It is more probable that the merry-making which has become particularly associated with the printers' See also:trade was once See also:general, and an See also:imitation of the See also:grand goose-feast annually held at Waes, in See also:Brabant, at Martinmas. The relations of See also:England and See also:Holland were formerly very See also:close, and it is not difficult to believe that any outing or yearly banquet might.have grown to be called colloquially a " Waes-Goose." It is difficult to explain why the term should have only survived in the See also:printing trade, though the See also:English printers owed much to their Dutch See also:fellow-workers. Certainly the goose has See also:long ago parted See also:company with the printers' wayzgoose, which is usually held in See also:July, though it has no fixed See also:season. An unlikely See also:suggestion is that the See also:original wayzgoose was a feast given by an apprentice to his comrades at which the bird formed the See also:staple eatable.

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