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
Marriage comes in on the 13th of January, and at Septuagessima Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday, at which time it comes in again, and goes not out till Rogation Sunday.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William
He expressed neither pleasure that he was to be married, married so soon, on Low Sunday, nor a desire to see his bride, but simply went on whistling.
From The Witch and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
The Capitulum is said always except from Holy Thursday to the Vespers of Saturday preceding Low Sunday, and in Requiem Offices.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
On Low Sunday, 1506, he was ordained priest at Ottobeuren, and celebrated his first mass.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
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