month's mind
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Etymology
From Middle English monethes mynde under influence from Medieval Latin dies mensis (“day of the month”) and Old English ġemynd, whose principal sense was "memory".
Noun
month's mind (plural months' minds)
- (Christianity, now chiefly Ireland and Scotland) A requiem mass or other commemoration of a dead person held one month after burial.
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