Brewer's: All Hallow's Day

(November 1st). The French call it. Toussaint , which we have translated All Saints' Day. Hallow-mas is All-Saints' festival. (Anglo-Saxon, hálig, but Hálig-mónáth was september, and Hálig-doeg was simply a Holy-day)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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