单词 | Lammas Day |
例句 | Lammas Day falls on the first day of August, and was in Saxon times the Feast of First-fruits; sometimes a loaf of bread was given to the priest in lieu of first-fruit. From John O'Groats to Land's End Lammas Day.—Why was the 1st of August called "Lammas Day?" Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 Lammas Day, the first of August, literally "the loaf-mass" day or festival day at the beginning of harvest, one of the cross quarter days, Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas being the other three. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge And after this, on the morning after Lammas Day, King William was shot.' Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine That next Sunday was Lammas Day and a solemn feast. The Forest Lovers |
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