† midsummer gamesn. [in quot. translating a Latin work (by a German author) based on Pliny Nat. Hist.: the games were not an English tradition] Obsolete festivities held at midsummer.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandryi. f. 6v The Fathers..busied them selues rather with Pageantes and Midsommer games, then with the Vineyard.