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Hallowe'en   /hˌæləwˈin/   Listen
Hallowe'en

noun
1.
The evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people.  Synonyms: Allhallows Eve, Halloween.






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"Hallowe'en" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peter Peter has kept her Immured in Mausoleum gloom, A moist, humid, damp sort of gloom. And, though there's no doubt he bewept her, She is still in her yellow-hued tomb, Her unhallowed, Hallowe'en tomb And ever since Peter side-stepped her, He calls her his ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells

... boys perpetrated acts of lawlessness beyond the precincts of school life people began to look upon them askance. Scotty had distinguished himself rather unpleasantly on the last Hallowe'en; for besides the usual small depredations which everyone expected on that historic night, someone had gone to the extremity of elevating Gabby Johnny Thompson's wagon, heavily loaded with grain, to the top of the barn; and ...
— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith

... with frivolous forms of entertainment, Miss Woodhull did condescend to a Hallowe'en Masquerade each year, and two nights after Beverly's John Gilpin performance the girls were preparing for the dance ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... wrestling with the clerical and hierarchically constraining garment of darkness, and bleating all the while more and more angrily and loudly, for all the world like the great goat Baphomet himself when the witches dance about him on All-hallowe'en. But when the boy suddenly plucked off the cassock again, the lamb, after sneezing a little and finding his feet, became quite gentle once more, and looked only a little confused ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc

... see!" exclaimed the China Cat. "That black doll is coming to play tag with us! She belongs on the other side of the store, among the Hallowe'en novelties! If she rubs up against me she'll get me all black, and I can't stand it ...
— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope



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