Whitsunday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Whitsunday
before 1100; Middle English whitsonenday, Old English Hwīta Sunnandæg white Sunday; probably so called because the newly baptized wore white robes on that day
Example Sentences
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Australia’s fleet of more than 40 European-designed Taipans has been grounded since July 28 when one crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a nighttime training operation in the Whitsunday Islands off the northeast Australian coast.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
These agaves are being grown in Queensland, in a "dry tropical" microclimate, between the coastal towns of Airlie Beach and Bowen that sit opposite the Whitsunday Islands.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2022
The Whitsunday Islands – a collection of white-sand resorts and nature reserves set among coral reefs – are the peaks of drowned mountains that went under at the end of the last ice age.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019
“Debbie is a very large, slow-moving system,” said John Fowler, a spokesman for Ergon Energy, noting that 48,000 customers were without power in the Bowen, Whitsunday and Mackay areas.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
So it is on Whitsunday that this book1 finishes.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
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