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Lammas Day

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The first of August, literally "the loaf-mass" day or festival day at the beginning of harvest, one of the cross quarter days, Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas being the other three.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lammas Day'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​l/lammas-day.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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