† midsummer sightsn. [in quot. translating a Latin work (by a German author) based on Pliny Nat. Hist.: the performances were not an English tradition] Obsolete rural dramatic performances at midsummer.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandryi. f. 16 The husbandes..spent their time rather in Maygames and Midsommer sightes, then with tylling the ground, or planting of Uines.