Hallantide
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editHallantide (uncountable)
- (obsolete, dialectal, West Country, Ireland, Isle of Man, Lincolnshire, Northampton, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall) All Saints' Day
- c. 17th century, William Browne, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock[1], volume 2, published 1894, page 229:
- Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupied
- 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's[2], page 17:
- Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)
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edit- James Orchard Halliwell (1846) “HALLANTIDE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 430, column 1.
- Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary[3], volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 33
- Observations on Some of The Dialects in The West of England – Somerset Particularly
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