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Michaelmasse

Michaelmasse is the obsolete spelling of Michaelmas.

Meaning of Michaelmas

Proper noun

Michaelmas (plural Michaelmases)

  1. A Christian feast celebrated on the 29th of September in honour of the archangel Michael.
    • To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out...1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life...

Forms of Michaelmasse

pluralMichaelmasses

Questions about Michaelmasse

What is Michaelmasse the obsolete spelling of?
Michaelmasse is the obsolete spelling of Michaelmas.

Words near Michaelmasse in the dictionary

  1. Michaelmas daisies
  2. Michaelmas daisy
  3. Michaelmas term
  4. Michaelmas terms
  5. Michaelmases
  6. Michaelmasse
  7. Michaelmasses
  8. Michaelmastide
  9. Michaels
  10. Michaelsen
  11. Michaelsens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Michaelmasse (page history and authors); Michaelmas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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