Halloweven

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A form of Halloween — The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.

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Meanings

proper nounHalloweven (plural not attested)
  1. archaicno pluralArchaic form of Halloween.

    HALLOWEVEN or Hallowe’en, the vigil of Hallowmas or All Saints’ Day.

    1890, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 398
    2 more examples

    She had heard the mystic wisdom / Of the waters of the meer; / There she sought her lover’s picture / ’Mid the Halloweven cheer.

    1895, Werner's Magazine, volume 17, Halloweven Cheer, page 763

    659. Dalry.—On Halloweven the fairies rode on cats at the Holme Glen, Dalry. On that night considerate housekeepers shut up their cats, to prevent them from being laid hold of by the fairies.

    1898, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, volume 67, page 491
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