wakes

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 327 words | Copyright

wakes in some parts of the UK, a festival and holiday held annually in a rural parish, originally on the feast day (originally the wake or vigil before the festival) of the patron saint of the church.
Wakes Week in northern England, an annual holiday in towns such as Leeds, traditionally when mills closed for a stated period.

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