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lammas
/ˈlæməs/
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What does lammas mean?
proper noun
- A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest.
- 1st August, a quarter day.
- A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlæməs/
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Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.
The oat-harvest began, and all the men were afield under a monochromatic Lammas sky, amid the trembling air and short shadows of noon.