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Lammas

noun
1.
Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England.  Synonyms: August 1, Lammas Day.





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"Lammas" Quotes from Famous Books



... fell about the Lammas tide, When moormen win their hay, The doughty Earl of Douglas rode Into ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge
... depones, That the said paper was put in his hands by the said Duncan Clerk, who at the time told him it was a premium of twenty pounds Scots to hold his tongue of what he knew of Serjeant Davies: Depones, That while the deponent was in the panel Duncan Clerk's service, and about Lammas seventeen hundred and fifty-one, he showed to the deponent a long green silk purse, and that he showed also to the deponent the contents which were in it, viz. sixteen guineas in gold, and some silver: And being interrogate what was the occasion of showing this purse and money to ...
— Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Lammas" :   quarter day, Lammas Day, August 1


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