Mothering Sunday
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (UK) The fourth Sunday of Lent, three Sundays before Easter, now especially as a day to honor one's mother.
- 1838, William Howitt, Rural Life in England, p. 159:
- ...on Mothering Sunday, when all the ‘servant-lads’ and ‘servant wenches’ are, in some parts of the country, set at liberty for a day, to go and see their mothers...
- 1880, Arthur Joseph Munby, Dorothy, p. 66:
- Mary, it's twenty good year—twenty-one, come Mothering Sunday—'Since he was here at the farm.
- 2007, Susan Elkin, 100 Ideas for Secondary School Assemblies, p. 12:
- Mothering Sunday is a British, Christian tradition. The Americans celebrate ‘Mother's Day’ later in the year.
- 1838, William Howitt, Rural Life in England, p. 159:
- Mid-Lent, Mid-Lent Sunday
- Mothering Day, Mother's Day (UK & Ireland)
- Laetare Sunday (usual liturgical name in Catholicism & Anglicanism)
- Simnel Sunday, Refection Sunday, Refreshment Sunday (dated, in reference to the customary relaxation of Lenten abstention on this day)
- Rose Sunday, Sunday of the Five Loaves (dated, in reference to Catholic practices on this day)
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