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Definition of Allhallows eve
1. Noun. The evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allhallows Eve
Literary usage of Allhallows eve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1855)
"Agreeable to this privilege, Stow, speaking of the customs at London, says, "
From allhallows eve to the day following Candlemas-day, there was, ..."
2. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx by JOHN. RHYS (1901)
"On Allhallows' Eve A bogie on every stile. Welsh people speak of only three ...
The Hwch du gwta is at large on Allhallows' Eve, and the Scottish Gaels have ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"... on allhallows eve. There can, I think, be no doubt that the stalks of ...
and that the superstition on allhallows eve is the same still prevailing in ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... they told u» that the Council ol" Six was broken up, all business was settled,
Ludlow was commander in chief, and Allhallows-eve was the time, ..."
5. Medii Aevi Kalendarium by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"... of the last century, " but the servants having demanded apples, ale and nuts,
I took the opportunity of running back my own annals of allhallows eve. ..."
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