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  • proper noun The evening before All Hallows'; Halloween.

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Examples

  • He accordingly packed up the few things that belonged to him, and set out very early in the morning on Allhallow Day, which is the first of November.

    Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

  • He accordingly packed up the few things that belonged to him, and set out very early in the morning on Allhallow Day, which is the first of November.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • They were two in number, and fell at an interval of six months, one being celebrated on the eve of May Day and the other on Allhallow Even or Hallowe’en, as it is now commonly called, that is, on the thirty-first of October, the day preceding All Saints’ or Allhallows’ Day.

    Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 6. The Hallowe’en Fires 1922

  • They were two in number, and fell at an interval of six months, one being celebrated on the eve of May Day and the other on Allhallow Even or Hallowe'en, as it is now commonly called, that is, on the thirty-first of October, the day preceding All Saints 'or Allhallows' Day.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Bessie Thom had been not only at the Allhallow Eve meeting with Thomas

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Isobel Cockie of Aberdeen was accused of being at a Sabbath on Allhallow Eve: 'Thou wast the ring-leader, next

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Day and the other on Allhallow Even or Hallowe'en, as it is now commonly called, that is, on the thirty-first of October, the day preceding All Saints 'or Allhallows' Day.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • He and she had used me, my wife and childern, wurshipfully and bowntifully for our frendeship shewed unto them for the lone of our howse and lodgings from Allhallow-tyde last.

    The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567

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    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • -- it is in Allhallow-time, or on the Hallow-eve itself, month ci-devant November, year once named of Grace 1794, sad eve for Jacobinism, -- volley of stones dashing through our windows, with jingle and execration!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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  • Very satisfying number of 1's.

    April 13, 2018