Low Sunday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
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 ● Sep. 21, 2021
Do you remember on Low Sunday before his wedding Anisim's bringing me some new roubles and half-roubles?
From The Witch and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
It takes its name from the Paschal festival or Easter, whose services end with Low Sunday, the octave, or eighth day, of Easter.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
"Two days after Low Sunday, in the year of grace 1568," returned Susan.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Low Sunday.—The first Sunday after Easter is the Octave of the Queen of Festivals and is commonly called "Low Sunday."
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
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