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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Bel·tane /ˈbɛlˌten, tɪn/
 農曆五月一日

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bel·tane n.
 1. The first day of May (Old Style).
    The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas.   --New English Dict.
 2. A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.
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