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Definition of Allhallows
1. Noun. A Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835.
Generic synonyms: Holy Day Of Obligation
Group relationships: Nov, November
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allhallows
Literary usage of Allhallows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"The Jewry—allhallows Church—Terrible Gunpowder Accident near the Church—Famous
Men buried at allhallows—Monumental Brass St. ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"At allhallows they were so greatly at a loss at one period, that they endeavoured
to raise 500/. upon their lands, but Sergeant Pemberton advised them that ..."
3. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"allhallows, BARKING. Chancing to pass by the church of allhallows, Barking, in
this city, and seeing the door open, I was induced to enter that venerable ..."
4. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and by John Evans (1881)
"The specimen here figured has been kindly lent me by Mr. Humphrey Wickham, of
Strood, and waa found with a hoard of bronze objects at allhallows, Hoo,f Kent ..."
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