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Lady-day

Lady-day is the alternative form of Lady Day.

Meaning of Lady Day

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.
    • 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.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 173

Forms of Lady-day

pluralLady-days

Questions about Lady-day

What is Lady-day the alternative form of?
Lady-day is the alternative form of Lady Day.

Words near Lady-day in the dictionary

  1. lady-birds
  2. lady-boner
  3. lady-boners
  4. lady-bug
  5. lady-bugs
  6. Lady-day
  7. Lady-days
  8. lady-flies
  9. lady-fly
  10. lady-in-waiting
  11. lady-killer

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