Maundy Thursday
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- The Thursday before Easter, which commemorates the Last Supper.
- 1960, Alfred Lewis Shoemaker, Eastertide in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study, 2000, page 13 ↗,
- The dialect name for Maundy Thursday, Grie(ner)-Durmerschdawg (Green Thursday, literally), is in very large part responsible for the basic lore that attaches to this day: One must eat something green on this day. […] Failure to eat something green on Maundy Thursday had dire consequences, according to the folk mind: One would get the itch, one would become lousy, or as a York County informant put it, "Mer iss s gans yawr uff em aisel." (One will be a mule all year long.)
- 1960, Alfred Lewis Shoemaker, Eastertide in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study, 2000, page 13 ↗,
- Covenant Thursday
- Great and Holy Thursday
- Green Thursday (especially in a German-speaking context)
- Holy Thursday
- Sheer Thursday
- Thursday of Mysteries
- French: Jeudi saint
- German: Gründonnerstag
- Italian: Giovedì santo
- Portuguese: Quinta-Feira Santa, Quinta-feira de Endoenças
- Russian: Страстной четве́рг
- Spanish: Jueves Santo
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