Burns Night

Noun capitalized: Burns night

Burns night (plural Burns nights)

1. An event held on or around the evening of 25th January in celebration of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns (born on that day in 1759), usually involving Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry.
   • The Upholsterers and females in the employment of Messrs. J. Allan & Sons, met on the Burns' night to tea and supper in Mrs. Sheriff's Hotel, […]1859, “Aberdeen”, in James Ballantine, editor, Chronicle of the Hundredth Birthday of Robert Burns, Edinburgh; London: A[rchibald] Fullarton & Co., →OCLC, page 145
   • With those hectic ‘Burns’ Nights’ when the emphasis, like their own, falls on food and drink and the absence of all things unpleasant—on the absence, in particular, of any hard thinking—they go well enough.1956, Christina Keith, “The Background of Burns' Thought—Burns' Qualities—Burns and Rousseau—Burns and Homer—Women in Scots Literature and History—Burns as a Poet”, in The Russet Coat: A Critical...