martlemas-beef

martlemas-beef
 beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpose about the feast of St. Martin, November the eleventh. Ess. and Suff.

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England. . 1790.

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  • Martinmas —  , Martlemas    This date, 11 November, is the feast of St Martin of Tours. In medieval and Elizabethan times it was an occasion for an ample feast of meat, because livestock which could not be fed through the winter was being slaughtered. Other… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

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