Advent Sunday

American  

noun

1. the first Sunday in Advent.

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Advent Sunday British  

noun

1. the first of the four Sundays of Advent, and the one that falls nearest to November 30

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Advent Sunday

On the morning of the first Advent Sunday, Stuttgart was quiet and peaceful.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2015

You did not know I was at the church of the Carmelites on Advent Sunday?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

The afternoon service of the first Advent Sunday had ended in the camp before Frederickshall.

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)

Then there is the loss of a day every year until Advent Sunday again falls on the 27th of November and so on.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

Fortunately for Caper, no stampede took place on Advent Sunday, so that he lived to attend another grand tombola in the Villa Borghese.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various