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Definition of Midsummer eve
1. Noun. The night before Midsummer Day.
Generic synonyms: Day
Group relationships: June
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midsummer Eve
Literary usage of Midsummer eve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"In some parts of Spain people gather vervain after sunset on midsummer eve, and
wash their faces next morning in the water in which the plants have been ..."
2. England in the Days of Old by William Andrews (1897)
"THE old superstitions and customs of midsummer eve form a curious chapter in
English folk-lore. Formerly this was a period when the imagination ran riot. ..."
3. The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the by A lady (1855)
"... privilege—Anecdote of the Emperor—Bell-ringing—Kindness of heart among the
Russians—Household goda— Christmas—Midsummer-eve—Heathen ..."
4. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... This is a merry land ;*' and the courtier answered, " You have made it so."
* " On Midsummer- Eve, at night, King Henry came privily inti) ..."
5. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1871)
"... of the more formal kind in that age : — \ " Say to me, good sir, and answer
hereto: when men of the country upland bringen into London in midsummer eve ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"169. girl should fast on midsummer eve, and at midnight lay a clean cloth ...
If a Cornish young woman, on midsummer eve, takes off the shift she has been ..."
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