Hallantide
English
Noun
Hallantide (uncountable)
- (obsolete) All Saints' Day
- 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's[1], page 17:
- Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)
- 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's[1], page 17:
References
- “Hallantide” in A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, published J. R. Smith, 1860.
- Observations on Some of The Dialects in The West of England - Somerset Particularly