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Day, Lammas

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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(lamb's mass; or Old English, hlaf, loaf; maesse, Mass)

Name applied at present to August 1, one of the four term days on which, according to Scottish law, contracts are dated, houses rented, etc. The name has two origins:

  1. it commemorates the Lamb Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Vinculis, York, August 1, to which the feudatories each brought a lamb;
  2. it refers to the custom of depositing a loaf made from the first harvest of wheat at the church, August 1,.
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Entry for 'Day, Lammas'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​d/day-lammas.html. 1910.
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