Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient Athens, a family festival in honor of the birth of a child.
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Doubtless at this New England amphidromia the "groaning beer" was drunk, though Sewall "brewed my Wives Groaning Beer" two months before the child was born.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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