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Plough Monday

British

noun

the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house

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Plough Monday

Originally it was held on the Tuesday following Plough Monday - the first Monday after Twelfth Night.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

A village is due to mark 50 years since it revived the ancient rural tradition of Plough Monday.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2022

For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated.

From Time Magazine Archive

By Plough Monday we have passed, it seems probable, from New Year festivals to one that originally celebrated the beginning of spring.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

Plough Monday is still observed in Cambridgeshire, and the "plough-bullocks" drag around the parishes their ploughs and perform a weird play.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

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