Maundy Thursday
Proper noun
  1. 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.)
Synonyms
  • Covenant Thursday
  • Great and Holy Thursday
  • Green Thursday (especially in a German-speaking context)
  • Holy Thursday
  • Sheer Thursday
  • Thursday of Mysteries
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