Crossword clues for martinmas
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "martinmas".
Day, indeed, we find a feast that closely resembles Martinmas, and seems to be the same folk-festival transferred to a later date.
Celtic countries, on Guy Fawkes Day in England, and at Martinmas in Germany, for it would seem that they are intended to secure by imitation a due supply of sunshine.
Teutonic custom from Martinmas to Christmas or January 1, is far more conceivable than the attraction of a Roman practice to one of the earlier and waning festivals.
Denmark too a goose is eaten at Martinmas, and from its breast-bone the character of the coming winter can be foreseen.
It was often at Martinmas that leases ended, rents had to be paid, and farm-servants changed their places.
Another kind of sacrifice is suggested by a Dutch custom of throwing baskets of fruit into Martinmas bonfires, and by a German custom of casting in empty fruit-baskets.
In Venetia the peasants keep over from the vintage a few grapes to form part of their Martinmas supper, and as far south as Sicily it is considered essential to taste the new wine at this festival.
Shortly after Martinmas, do not be surprised to hear that I am deathly ill and may be dying.
No woman or child but would have fled at the sight of me, for I was as red as the parish butcher when Martinmas is nigh.
Dunnot ye remember how ye would raise my wage last Martinmas eighteen year?
She was sitting in the little farm-house beside the mill, buried in the green depths of the valley of Combe, half-way between Stow and Chapel, sulking as much as her sweet nature would let her, at being thus shut out from all the grand doings at Bideford, and forced to keep a Martinmas Lent in that far western glen.
Michaelmas, some barley and two hens at Martinmas, either a lamb or two pence at Easter, and a pig for the right to keep his herd in the forest, where they lived on the acorns and beechmast.
It was in the Martinmas quarter of this year that I got the first payment of my augmentation.
October, and after the hot September suns the leaves yellowed fast and hung loose, waiting for the Martinmas gales.
There was the Cardinal of York, with his cheeks like a Martinmas boar.