Hallantide
English
Alternative forms
- Allantide, Hallontide, Hollandtide, Hollantide
Noun
Hallantide (uncountable)
- (obsolete, dialectal, West Country, Ireland, Isle of Man, Lincoln, Northampton, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Hertford, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall) All Saints' Day
- c. 17th century, Browne, William, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock, volume 2, published 1894, page 229:
- Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupied
- 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's, page 17:
- Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)
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Related terms
- Hallan apple
- Hallan cake
- Hallan day
- Hallan night
References
- James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALLANTIDE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 430, column 1.
- Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary, volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 33
- Observations on Some of The Dialects in The West of England – Somerset Particularly