Lammas

[ lam-uhs ]

noun

1. a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.
2. 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.

Lammas

/ ˈlæməs /

noun

1. RC Church Aug 1, held as a feast, commemorating St Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison
2. Also calledLammas Day the same day formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lammas¹

before 900; Middle English Lammesse, Old English hlāmmæsse, hlāfmæsse. See loaf ¹, Mass

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lammas¹

Old English hlāfmæsse loaf mass

Example Sentences

If you time your visit between Maunday and Lammas, you obtain fourteen thousand years' pardon.

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The red and white lammas, and the Cape or bearded wheat, are the species generally cultivated.

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The lammas meadows are divided into strips like the arable land for the purpose of the hay crop.

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Grass-yrth may be the gafol for the share in the Lammas meadows, and the gafol-yrth for the arable in the yard-land.

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These open arable fields were originally divided off from the village by a stretch of Lammas land.

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