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Definition of Midsummers
1. midsummer [n] - See also: midsummer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midsummers
Literary usage of Midsummers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides Pedanius (1864)
"... to ashes on midsummers day : add holy water, and pour it into their mouth on
midsummers morrow ; and sing these three psalms over them: Psalm li.st, ..."
2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1916)
"... his Errors, his Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his midsummers night
dreame, and his Merchant of Venice." So far as external evidence goes, ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"It seemed but yesterday, — that time, so many midsummers ago, when she had told
Thias where this linen lay, that he might be sure and reach it out for her ..."
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