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English
Proper noun
Mihilmas
- (dialect) Obsolete spelling of Michaelmas.
1837 July, J. A. Wade, “Darby the Swift: ”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume II, number VII, page 72:‘Who’s there?’ says I. ‘Where?’ says it, on th’ other side. ‘ Anywhere,’ says I, ‘to plaze ye;’ and wid that I fell into a could sweat, for I began to think it was Mihilmas Eve, an’ divil a grain of salt I had about me to keep me from harm!
1840, Thomas Gage, “New Rowley, or Second Parish, first settled”, in The History of Rowley, Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, From the Year 1639 to the Present Time, Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, page 323:[…] what he doth pay in fat cattell, he is to pay at or before Mihilmas […]