English Explanatory Dictionary

White Sunday

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

White Sunday

Etymology

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, i.e. the white robe of baptism traditionally received by those newly baptised at Easter. Doublet of Whitsunday.

Synonyms

Quasimodo

Related words

Whit Sunday
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