Whitsunday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Whitsunday
before 1100; Middle English whitsonenday, Old English Hwīta Sunnandæg white Sunday; probably so called because the newly baptized wore white robes on that day
Example Sentences
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The helicopter crashed during a nighttime exercise with the United States and other nations near the Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
But they wanted to leave mainly because Whitsunday boat trips were cancelled and on the mainland in Airlie Beach, the islands’ normally idyllic gateway town, things had turned a little squalid.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2017
“Debbie is a very large, slow-moving system,” said John Fowler, a spokesman for Ergon Energy, noting that 48,000 customers were without power in the Bowen, Whitsunday and Mackay areas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
She was snorkelling near the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia when the attack happened.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2010
In the year 626, Eanfled, daughter of King Edwin, was baptized with twelve others, on the eve of Whitsunday.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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