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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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CUMMERFEALLS, n.pl. “An entertainment formerly given in Scot. on the recovery of a female from inlying” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2).Sc. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi.:
At the leddy's recovery, there was a graund supper gien that they caw'd the cummerfealls.
Sc. 1884 C. Rogers Social Life I. iv.:
The occasion was known as the gossip's wake or cummerfealls.
Gall. 1882 J. Douglas Book of Galloway, 1745 46:
No cummerfealls had been here as in the houses of the great.

[Cummer, n.2, 3. + Fiall, fialls, wages. q.v.]

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