Samain,
- a variation of Samhain.
Example Sentences
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Samain, 31, 288-90, 298-9, 345, 439-40, 453: see November Day.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
He used the sonnet form at that period just as Verhaeren used it in "Les Flamandes," to show us Flanders, and as Albert Samain in "Le Chariot d'Or," to picture the gardens of Versailles.
From Sonnets from the Crimea by Underwood, Edna Worthley
With measured words he told Philip what to think of Rodin, Albert Samain, and Caesar Franck.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
And that very night which followed the day on which the ollave to the Tuatha De Danann came to them was the Eve of Samain.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
It is clear that this last part of the Egyptian belief is quite like the Celtic conception of Samain as we have seen Ailill and Medb celebrating that festival in their palace at Cruachan.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
