Whit Monday
Britishnoun
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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
Whit Monday was a hard day for me.
From Windyridge by W. Riley
He could draw the price of an ode and a roundelay from the Spectator—but not to-day, for this was a Bank Holiday, Whit Monday, in fact.
From The Literary Sense by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Do you know, I was asked to preach Leonard's Institution sermon last Whit Monday, and I dared to preach it?
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
Well, it was Whit Monday, my wife had a party of her friends to coffee, and the buzz and hum of female voices--which I could hear through double doors--drove me out.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
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