单词 | hallowmas |
释义 | Hallowmasn. The feast of All Hallows or All Saints. Also attributive, as Hallowmas-day, Hallowmas-eve. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > All Saints (1 November) > [noun] All-HallowsOE All Hallows' MassOE All Hallows' Day?c1225 Hallowmas1389 All Hallow Day1399 All Hallowmass?a1400 All Saintsa1400 All Saints' Day1562 Hallow-day1596 All Saints' mass1823 Toussaint1930 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 60 Ye soneday be-forn halwemesse day. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 69 Ye souneday next after halumesday. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vi. 97 At halowmasse Antor made hys sone knyght, and at yoole he come to logres. 1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles F iv b Your solempne and double feasts of your hollomass, Christmass, Candlemass. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 80 She came adorned hither like sweete Maie, Sent backe like Hollowmas or shortst of day. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 268/2 Sow Wheat before Hallowmas Eve. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xix, in Poems 16 As bleak-fac'd Hallowmass returns. a1832 W. Scott St. Swithin's Chair On Hallow-Mass Eve the Night-Hag will ride. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. xiv. 469 The old quarterly terms for paying the school fees were Lammas, Hallowmas, Candlemas, and Beltane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1389 |
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