ice saints
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps a calque of German Eisheilige; compare French saints de glace.
Noun[edit]
ice saints pl (normally plural, singular ice saint)
- (sometimes capitalized) The saints Pancras of Rome, Servatius of Tongeren, Mamertus of Vienne and/or SBoniface of Tarsus, and sometimes Sophia of Rome, whose feast days are on May 11th though 15th.
- A spell of cold weather in May on or around those dates. (Compare blackthorn winter, blackberry winter.)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ice saints.