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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Lammas
a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME Lammesse, OE hlāmmæsse, hlāfmæsse. See loaf¹, mass²)

Definition of 'lammas'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Lammas, Lammas Day, August 1
commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lammas
the first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide

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