Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Christian feast formerly celebrated in England, during which bread from the season's first wheat was consecrated at Mass in thanksgiving for the harvest.
- noun A Christian feast formerly celebrated in commemoration of Saint Peter's deliverance from prison.
- noun August 1, the day on which these feasts were celebrated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, in England, the festival of the wheat-harvest, observed on the 1st of August, corresponding to the 12th in the modern calendar.
- noun In Great Britain, the 1st of August as a date, which in Scotland is a quarter-day and in England a half-quarter-day.
- noun The church festival of St. Peter's Chains, or St. Peter in the Fetters, observed on August 1st in memory of St. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous deliverance (Acts xii. 4–10).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The first day of August; -- called also
Lammas day , andLammastide .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun England former festival held on 1st
August celebrating theharvest . - noun Scotland 1st August, a
quarter day - noun paganism A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lammas is coming August 1, now, Thats the Beer Festival and I must get to my brewing!
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Lammas is coming August 1, now, Thats the Beer Festival and I must get to my brewing!
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This fair, says Keating, was then kept upon the day known in the Irish language as La Lughnasa, or the day ordained by Lughaidh, and is called in English Lammas-day.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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And so the book now known as Lammas Night was born.
In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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Lammas (loaf mass) is also found as a personal name, but there is a place called Lammas in Norfolk.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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"It's called the Lammas Cup now though we used to call it the Lammas Open," Graham Hutchison told the Diary over a whisky in the town's Whey Pat Inn. "It started because in Scotland pubs used only to open from 11am until 2pm before reopening in the evening.
The Open 2010 Diary: Tiger Woods' putter switch of 'no concern' to supplier 2010
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Garland started out as a Ronnie Scott protege, became an inventive early explorer of folk-jazz crossovers with the band Lammas and earned international acclaim as a Chick Corea sideman.
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In these Lammas days, the flowers of the sun are bird's-foot trefoil, meliots, medicks, St John's wort, yellow-wort, ragwort and hawkbits.
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Nina Allan's "The Lammas Worm" is a story that is more Fantastical than it is Horrific.
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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But on Lammas day, which is a kind of market day, the pubs in St Andrews would open all day from 11am.
The Open 2010 Diary: Tiger Woods' putter switch of 'no concern' to supplier 2010
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April 11, 2014