Lammas Day

Variant of Lammas

Lammas definition

Lam·mas (lam′əs)

noun

  1. a harvest festival formerly held in England on Aug. 1, when bread baked from the first crop of wheat was consecrated at Mass
  2. this day (Lammas Day) or this time (Lam′·mas·tide′) of the year

Etymology: ME lammasse < OE hlammæsse, for hlafmæsse, lit., loaf mass, bread feast: see loaf & Mass

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