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Lady Day   /lˈeɪdi deɪ/   Listen
Lady Day

noun
1.
A festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.  Synonyms: Annunciation, Annunciation Day, March 25.






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"Lady Day" Quotes from Famous Books



... marginalia which throw light on his life and times, his dislike of the Venetians for their anti-papal policy, his experiences as physician to the Abbey of St. Ulrich in Augsburg, and the part that he played in the introduction of printing there. On Lady Day, 1481, shortly after Nicholas' birth, perhaps when he had lived just a week and seemed likely to thrive, the father composed an address to his four living sons—four being already dead—, and wrote it into this volume. He adjures them to follow learning and goodness, and finally bids ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen

... dogs, adventuring too far, had never come back. Legend had it that hundreds of years ago Lashnagar had been a quiet little village nestling round Castle Lashcairn, the home of Marcella's folks. That was in the year before Flodden Field, a hot, dry time that began with Lady Day and lasted till the Feast of All Souls without rain or storm. In that hot summer a witch-woman, very beautiful, had come to Lashnagar to win the soul of Andrew Lashcairn, winning with his soul his bed and his board. A wild wooing it was, and a wilder wedding. All ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles



Words linked to "Lady Day" :   March 25, Annunciation Day, march, mar, quarter day, annunciation



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