August 1
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- noun
- UK
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1 de agosto
- In Scotland, August 1 is a quarter day, traditionally celebrated with local harvest festivals.
Examples
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On August 1, 1218, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Peter Nolasco, St. Raymond of Penafort, and King James I of Aragon, requesting them to found a religious order for ransoming Christians imprisoned by Muslims.
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This year, August 1 marks the celebration of St Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
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It's Wednesday, August 1, and I am still in Oklahoma.
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They were pushing for a passage before Aug. 1, and no one has answers.
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On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, many rallied around the Atlanta-based chicken restaurant Chick-fil-A.
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On August 1, 1786, Caroline discovered a comet, the first of eight she found over a span of eleven years.
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Justice William Price has announced that he will retire on August 1 to ensure his successor is chosen "by the same ... nonpartisan merit plan that has served Missouri so well for the past 70 years."
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On the evening of August 1, 1876, James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok was playing poker in a Dakota Territory saloon in the town of Deadwood with several other men, including a man by the name of Jack McCall.
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Under the Montreal Protocol, all contracting states are required to stabilize production of CFCs at these 1986 levels by August 1, 1989, and are required to reduce the production and consumption of CFCs to eighty percent of their 1986 levels by June 30, 1994.
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On August 1, people in England gather to celebrate Lammas, honoring the start of the harvest season.
Synonyms
A festival on 1 August that marks the start of the harvest and was once a Christian celebration
A festival on August 1 that marks the start of the harvest
Surface Forms
Morphology
The string 'August 1' is transparently built from the month name plus the numeral, so a B1 learner who knows 'August' and 'one' will understand it denotes the first day of August (a common, cross-linguistic date format). However, the specific cultural/historical senses (Lammas, St Peter's deliverance, quarter-day celebrations) are conventional and cannot be derived from the constituents, so the MWE is only partially predictable.
Etymology
August 1 comes from old church and farm customs: people remembered St Peter's release from prison and celebrated the harvest festival called 'Lammas', when the first wheat was baked into bread. That's why it later became a 'quarter day' for paying rents and settling contracts.