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alb sunday

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.62 in modern English

Syllables
al-b -sun-day
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, so called because, in the early church, those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Word Breakdown

Synonyms

Quasimodo

Questions

What does alb sunday mean?
Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
Where does alb sunday come from?
From Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, so called because, in the early church, those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

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