Lammas

[ lam-uhs ]

/ ˈlæm əs /

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noun

a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.

a festival (Feast of St. Peter's Chains ) observed by Roman Catholics on August 1, in memory of St. Peter's imprisonment and his miraculous deliverance.

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Also called Lammas Day .

Origin of Lammas

before 900; Middle English Lammesse, Old English hlāmmæsse, hlāfmæsse. See loaf¹, Mass

Words nearby Lammas

laminose, laminous, La Mirada, lamister, lamium, Lammas, Lammastide, lammergeier, Lamont, L'Amour, Lamoureux

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How to use Lammas in a sentence

If you time your visit between Maunday and Lammas, you obtain fourteen thousand years' pardon.
Robert Annys: Poor Priest|Annie Nathan Meyer
The red and white lammas, and the Cape or bearded wheat, are the species generally cultivated.
Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land|William Charles Wentworth
The lammas meadows are divided into strips like the arable land for the purpose of the hay crop.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm
Grass-yrth may be the gafol for the share in the Lammas meadows, and the gafol-yrth for the arable in the yard-land.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm

These open arable fields were originally divided off from the village by a stretch of Lammas land.
The English Village Community|Frederic Seebohm

British Dictionary definitions for Lammas

Lammas

/ (ˈlæməs) /

noun

RC Church Aug 1, held as a feast, commemorating St Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison

Also called: Lammas Day the same day formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day

Word Origin for Lammas

Old English hlāfmæsse loaf mass

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