Low Sunday
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of Low Sunday
First recorded in 1505–15
Example Sentences
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Slow and Low Sunday Meals I’m by myself now while I’m up here working, but still, on Sundays, it’s in my veins to put on a pot, low and slow.
From New York Times
He was obliged to return to Milan on Low Sunday, April 7, as on that day expired the term of fifteen days which he had assigned to a contumacious heretic.
From Project Gutenberg
Marriage comes in on the 13th of January, and at Septuagessima Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday, at which time it comes in again, and goes not out till Rogation Sunday.
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The Paschal Season extends from Septuagesima Sunday to Low Sunday, a period of seventy days.
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Low Sunday.—The first Sunday after Easter is the Octave of the Queen of Festivals and is commonly called "Low Sunday."
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