Whit Monday

British  

noun

1. the Monday following Whit Sunday

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Example Sentences

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

This new attack, on the 10th of May, deprived Arnaud and his men of the privilege of the Holy Communion, which they had desired to partake of on Whit Monday.

From The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys by Worsfold, J. N. (John Napper)

Only to look at a few old ruins, when they might 'a' spent Whit Monday in the Spa Gardens, with the Grenadier Band, and the variety company down from Lunnon, too!'

From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela

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 Lambert, Henry Clifton

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 Nesbit, E. (Edith)