Lammas

//ˈlæməs// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest. England
  2. 2
    1st August, a quarter day. Scotland
  3. 3
    A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
Noun
  1. 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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