词汇 | oyez oyez oyez |
词源 | Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! This call made by a court officer is the French second-person plural imperative of oyer, “to hear,” meaning “hear ye! hear ye! hear ye!” and was introduced to En- gland by the Normans. It was formerly used by town criers, and Shakespeare rendered it as O yes! |
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