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Thread #19803 Message #4067645
Posted By: Lighter
07-Aug-20 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Subject: RE: Origins: Coming Home from the Wake/Nellie Milkmaid
Oxford shows that "wake" was the word applied since the Middle Ages to any of various periodic church or secular festivals.
These were sometimes specified as "country wakes."