Childermas

How to use Childermas in a sentence

• No, child; if it please God, you shall not begin upon Childermas-day; tell your writing-master that Friday will be soon enough.

  Essays and Tales | Joseph Addison

• See thou fall not hastily into the like offence, else shalt thou smart from Childermas to All-hallowtide.

  Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) | John Roby

• On the eve of Innocents day (Dec. 28th), the priests gave way to the choir boys, the children, for the celebration of Childermas.

  St. Nicholas | George H. McKnight

• A central feature of the celebration was a pompous church procession following vespers on Childermas eve.

  St. Nicholas | George H. McKnight

• On Childermas day (the 28th of August) the license of the English visitors had grown to such a height, that it was.

  The Boke of Noblesse | Unknown