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Candlemas

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Noun

1. candlemas, candlemas day, feb 2

feast day commemorating the presentation of Christ in the temple; a quarter day in Scotland

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Candlemas

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noun
Christianity
Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days

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Candlemas

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noun
a church feast, Feb. 2, commemorating the purification of the Virgin Mary: candles for sacred uses are blessed on this day
: also Candlemas Day

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Candlemas

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n.
A Christian feast observed on February 2 to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.

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