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The [[word]] ''Halloween'' is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows'-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints All Hallows' Day]. Although the phrase All Hallows' is found in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (''ealra hālgena mæssedæg'', mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556

The [[word]] ''Halloween'' is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows'-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints All Hallows' Day]. Although the phrase All Hallows' is found in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (''ealra hālgena mæssedæg'', mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556

==Definition==

==Definition==

*1: October 31 observed especially with dressing up in [[disguise]], trick-or-treating, and displaying jack-o'-lanterns during the [[evening]]

*1: October 31 observed especially with dressing up in [[disguise]], trick-or-treating, and displaying jack-o'-lanterns during the [[evening]]