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candlemas day

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Can⋅dle⋅mas

  [kan-dl-muhs, -mas]
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–noun
a church festival, February 2, in honor of the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary: candles are blessed on this day.
Also called Candlemas Day.

Origin:
bef. 1050; ME candelmasse, OE candelmæsse. See candle, -mas
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candlemas day

noun
feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland [syn: Candlemas] 
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