All Saints' Day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of All Saints' Day
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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Trade volumes are expected to be light due to an All Saints' Day observance.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
Día de Muertos falls on Nov. 1 and 2 — which, not coincidentally, are All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day in Catholicism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
The timing was terrible: cholera was confirmed less than a fortnight before Haiti’s annual All Saints’ Day, when families travel to visit the graves of loved ones.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2020
Medieval Christian tradition held that on Hallowtide, the eve of All Saints’ Day, the poor went to the homes of the wealthy and offered to pray for the recently departed in that household.
From Time ● Oct. 26, 2017
“She shouldn’t! Tomorrow is All Saints’ Day, and Oma will make strudel that is even better than candy.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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