Whit Monday
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I remember lying awake for hours on the morning of Whit Monday, eager to put on the gorgeous dress, which, that year, was deep pink overlaid with white lace.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
Everything was shut yesterday, as it was Whit Monday.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
On the 22nd of May, on Whit Monday, 1747, an order must probably have come from Major S---- of which we officers learnt nothing.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
The Chester plays began on Whit Monday, and, continued till the following Wednesday.
From A History of Pantomime by R. J. Broadbent
On the following Whit Monday more after-dinner speeches were being made when the head of the bleaching department boasted that he had six hundred pounds which he had mulcted from his workers in fines.
From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Henry Clifton Lambert
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