† ˈHallow-tide Obs.
Forms: 5 halow-, 6 halon-, halun-, hallon-, 7 hallen-, hallow-tide.
[Shortened from All-Hallow-tide, † all hallowentyde: see All-Hallow 6.]
The season of All Saints; the first week of November.
| c 1450 Merlin 100 Antor hadde made his eldeste sone knyght at the halowtide be-fore yoole. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 444 The which shal be now at this Halontyde. 1573 Tusser Husb. xxi. (1878) 55 At Hallontide, slaughter time entereth in. 1606 W. Kellett in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) I. 95 Against michelmas or hallentide. 1609 Nottingham Rec. IV. 292 On Saint Mathew daye, and so till Hallowtyd. |