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Michaelmas

//ˈmɪkəlməs// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Christian feast celebrated on the 29th of September in honour of the archangel Michael.

    "To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]"

  2. 2
    Ellipsis of Michaelmas term. Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Noun
  1. 1
    honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English Michelmasse, Myghelmesse; equivalent to Michael + -mas.

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