Advent Sunday
Americannoun
noun
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On the morning of the first Advent Sunday, Stuttgart was quiet and peaceful.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2015
I would gladly have umpired at Monte Carlo on Good Friday, Easter, Advent Sunday, and Christmas, all rolled into one, if those men had asked me.
From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.
Then it is forbidden until Trinity Sunday, from whence it is unforbidden till Advent Sunday, but then it goes out, and comes not in again till the 13th of January next following.”
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William
Such poems as that for Advent Sunday, or the Second Sunday after Trinity, contain between seventy and eighty heroic lines.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
The Altar Table, from a design by Mr. Garner, was first used on Advent Sunday, 1902; and the woodwork round the chancel was finished in 1911.
From A Short Account of King's College Chapel by Littlechild, Walter Poole
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