Re: Swallowdale - Dixon-speak - Childermas


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Posted by John Nichols on June 11, 2006 at 00:19:56 from 165.91.196.227 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Swallowdale - Dixon-speak posted by PeterH on June 04, 2006 at 21:49:57:

OED Childermas:

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1. The festival of the Holy Innocents (the 28th of December), commemorating the slaughter of the children by Herod (Matt. ii. 16). Usually childermas-day, -tide.

c1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. ii. 13 rubric, ys god-spel sceal on cylda-męsse dę. c1300 Beket 2009 Amorwe a childerne massedai. 1387 TREVISA Higden (Rolls) V. 49 e legende at is i-rad a children masse day. 1460 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 117 On chyldermasse day yn cristemasse. 1580 HOLLYBAND Treas. Fr. Tong, Les Innocens, as le jour des Innocens, childermas day at christmasse. 1614 B. JONSON Barth. Fair II. vi. (1631) 31 Hold thy hand, childe of wrath..make it not Childermasse day in thy fury. 1720 STRYPE Stow's Surv. (1754) I. I. xxv. 186/1 The children every Childermas day to go to Paul's church. 1849-53 ROCK Ch. Fathers III. ix. 220 At Childermas-tide. 1889 Letts's Diary 28 Dec., Innocents' Day, Childermas.



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