LAMMASTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lammastide mean? 

• LAMMASTIDE (noun)
  The noun LAMMASTIDE has 1 sense:

1. the season of Lammas

  Familiarity information: LAMMASTIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMMASTIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season of Lammas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Lammastide" is a kind of...):

season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)

Domain region:

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

 Context examples 

It was only last Lammastide, sir knight, that I was left for dead near Reading as I journeyed to Winchester fair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When young Amory de Valance was here last Lammastide he looked kindly upon the girl, and even spoke of taking her into his service.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was he and the Seneschal of Beaucaire who hung Peter Wilkins, of the Company, last Lammastide; for which, by the black rood of Waltham! they shall hang themselves, if ever they come into our power.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)