Lady Day

See also: Lady-day and Ladyday

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Etymology

From Middle English leafdi dei.

Noun

Lady Day (plural Lady Days)

  1. 25th March, an English quarter day.
  2. 25th March, Christian holy day, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 173:
      By Lady Day the Scriptorium was ready to receive the "copying and burrowing" of the host of readers who had been directed by Furnivall for the past twenty years.

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