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Definition of Martinmas

Martinmas
Martinmas Mar"tin*mas, n. [St. Martin + mass religious service.] (Eccl.) The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. --Percy Smith.

Meaning of Martinmas from wikipedia

- Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), and historically called Old Halloween or Old Hallowmas Eve, is the feast day of Saint Martin of...
- throughout the town. The academic year is divided into two semesters, Martinmas and Candlemas. In term time, over one-third of the town's po****tion are...
- Whitsunday (legislatively fixed for this purpose as 15 May) Lammas (1 August) Martinmas (11 November). These were also the dates of the Quarter Days observed...
- slaughtering process, eating black puddings was historically ****ociated with Martinmas, when the annual slaughter of livestock took place. By the 19th century...
- (1912). Christmas in Ritual and Tradition. Chapter 7: All Hallow Tide to Martinmas Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Mary Mapes Dodge, ed...
- in which children are the objects of special attention, others being Martinmas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and New Year's Day. Masked devils acting...
- establishing a festive time frame, such as May, Martinmas, or Lammas. The versions which begin by mentioning "Martinmas Time" and others which begin with "Early...
- ministers' stipends would become due. The Term Days are Whitsunday and Martinmas, and together with Candlemas and Lammas they constitute the Quarter Days...
- an Irish or Gaelic word for "cow" or "heifer", although connections to Martinmas have also been posited. In most cattle twins, the blood vessels in the...
- forty-day fast until Christmas, started at Martinmas. (11 November). On All Souls Day soul cakes were baked. The Martinmas fair was important being the traditional...