Michaelmas Day (Noun)
Meaning
Honoring the archangel Michael; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The parish held a grand procession on Michaelmas Day to honor the archangel Michael and mark the beginning of the harvest season.
- Michaelmas Day was traditionally celebrated as a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland, where rents were paid and new contracts began.
- As the largest and most prominent saint's day after Easter, Michaelmas Day held significant importance in medieval England.
- According to custom, in rural Ireland, tenants were expected to settle their accounts and pay rent to the landlord on Michaelmas Day.
- During Michaelmas Day celebrations in some English villages, locals participated in folk dancing and Morris dancing, an ancient English tradition.