Marymass

English

Alternative forms

• Marymas

Etymology

From Mary +‎ mass.

Proper noun

Marymass

1. A festival held on 15 August in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Assumption.
   • 1985, John Strawhorn, The History of Irvine: Royal Burgh and New Town, page 192:

     The Shows which had previously filled High Street from Bridgegate to the Kirk Vennel each April (for the Bogside Races) and at Marymass were banished to the Moor, then to the Golffields.

   • 2000, John Burnett, Riot, Revelry, and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland Before 1860:

     Marymass was a festival of heavy drinking for industrial Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, and for Glasgow. In 1865, 700 gallons of whisky were delivered to Irvine on the Monday before Marymass.”

   • 2010, Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me, page 201:

     You could see it then, the moor crowded with Marymass revellers, the town's inhabitants.