English Explanatory Dictionary

Alb Sunday

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).

Word forms

Alb Sunday

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, so called because, in the early church, those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Synonyms

Quasimodo
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