- skip - Brewer’s

Mall Supper (A)

.

A harvest feast (North of England). A mal is a feast, our word meal (Anglo-Saxon, mæl).

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Male suada Fames
Malebolge
Malecasta
Maleger [wretchedly thin]
Malengin [guile]
Malepardus
Malherbe’s Canons of French Poetry
Maliom
Malkin
Mall or Pall Mall (London)
Mall Supper (A)
Mallows
Malmesbury (William of)
Malmesbury Monastery
Malmsey Wine
Malt
Malt … Meal
Maltese Cross
Malthusian (A)
Malthusian Doctrine
Malum