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countable and uncountable, plural hajjes
(Islam) The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars of Islam. quotations examples
The word Hajj is explained by Moslem divines to mean “Kasd,” or aspiration, and to express man’s sentiment that he is but a wayfarer on earth wending towards another and a nobler world.
1855, Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Appendix I
The restored cottage, which has been open to tourists since 1891 (Woodrow Wilson came here on a cycling tour in 1899), is the Kaabah of a Lake District haj, a must-see for all pilgrims.
2000 June, Jamie James, “Wordsworth Slept Here”, in The Atlantic