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Name day   /neɪm deɪ/   Listen
Name day

noun
1.
The feast day of a saint whose name one bears.






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"Name day" Quotes from Famous Books



... welcomed the opportunity of witnessing those solemn final vows. He felt that he should gain much from meeting Brother Anselm, whose work at Aldershot was considered after the Reverend Father's preaching to be the chief glory of the Order. Brother Lawrence was a little jealous that his name day, on which he was to be clothed in Chapter as a novice, should be chosen for the much more important ceremony, and he spoke sharply to poor Brother Walter when the latter rejoiced in the added lustre Brother Anselm's profession would ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie



Words linked to "Name day" :   saint's day



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