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Lammas
//ˈlæməs// name
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest. England
- 2 1st August, a quarter day. Scotland
- 3 A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
Noun
- 1 commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England wordnet
Etymology
From Old English hlafmæsse (“loaf mass, harvest festival”).
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