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Lammas
[ lam-uhs ]
noun
- a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.
- a festival Feast of St. Peter's Chains observed by Roman Catholics on August 1, in memory of St. Peter's imprisonment and his miraculous deliverance.
Lammas
/ ˈ±ô泾ə²õ /
noun
- RC Church Aug 1, held as a feast, commemorating St Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison
- Also calledLammas Day the same day formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of Lammas1
Example Sentences
Lafferty then got up and ran towards Lammas Road, discarding his makeshift mask on to the pavement.
Lammas, which falls on Aug. 1, is the least known today.
Hudson Pacific owns 15 million square feet of offices for rent in the West, including buildings in Vancouver, Canada, that have returned to about 20% occupancy, President Mark Lammas said.
One thing I did know from hard experience: a master's promise to a prentice is likely to be redeemed only at the last Lammas, as they say—which is to say never.
John Lammas, the 56-year-old vice president for power generation engineering, started his working career 40 years ago, on the shop floor of a Rolls-Royce jet engine factory in Birmingham, England.
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