Saint Swithin's Day

British

noun

July 15, observed as a Church festival commemorating Saint Swithin. It is popularly supposed that if it rains on this day the rain will persist for the next 40 days

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Saint Swithin's Day

The midwife, needing to replenish her stores of leather flasks, nutmeg, pepper, and the water in which a murderer had washed his hands, made plans to attend the Saint Swithin’s Day Fair at Gobnet-Under-Green.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Actually it meant that Beetle was to go to the Saint Swithin’s Day Fair in the midwife’s place.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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