Low Sunday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Low Sunday
First recorded in 1505–15
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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
Not Low Sunday with us; that is after Easter Day.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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 William Andrews
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 George Nichols Packer
The Sundays of the year, excepting Easter Sunday, Low Sunday, Pentecost and Trinity, are said according to the semi-double rite.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
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