Hallantide

Alternative forms

• Allantide, Hallontide, Hollandtide, Hollantide

Noun

Hallantide (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, dialectal, Ireland, Isle of Man, Lincoln, Northampton, Worcester, Shropshire, Gloucester, Hertford, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall) All Saints' Day
   • c. 17y, Browne, William, “An Epistle occasioned by the most intolerable Jangling of the Papists' Bells on All Saints' Night”, in The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock‎, volume 2, published 1894, page 229:

     Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide / Left all alone, and no way occupied

   • 1872, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Proceedings, “Somersetshire Glossary”, in Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's‎, page 17:

     Hallantide ... All Saints' Day, (hallow-een-tide)

References

• “Hallantide” in James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho, 1847, OCLC 81046494, page 430, column 1.
• Wright, Joseph (1902) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 3, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 33
• Observations on Some of The Dialects in The West of England – Somerset Particularly