lammas

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Definition of lammas in English English dictionary: 1st August, a quarter day; A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest; former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest; {n} the first of August, when the parochial clergy collected their tithes in lambs; {i} former harvest festival celebrated in England on August 1; religious holiday celebrated on August 1 to commemorate St. Peter's imprisonment and release (Catholicism); The first day of August; called also Lammas day, and Lammastide; commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England
at latter Lammas: never

lammas

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Lam·mas

() from Old English hlafmæsse (loaf mass, harvest festival)

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