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
This feast took place April 14, Low Sunday, on a very pleasant day; the cold could not enter the house, and if it had, the roaring stoves would have soon conquered it.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
He was obliged to return to Milan on Low Sunday, April 7, as on that day expired the term of fifteen days which he had assigned to a contumacious heretic.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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
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
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