Borrowing Days, the last three days of March (old style), supposed in Scotch folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy. In Cheshire, the first eleven days of May are called 'borrowed days,' because in old style they belong to April. See Brand's Popular Antiquities (Ellis's ed. vol. i.).
Borrowing Days
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 341
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