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Alb Sunday
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English
Etymology
From en la-ecc Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of la Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or la 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.
Proper noun
Alb Sunday
en Q617085 en Quasimodo<id:Q617085><gloss:the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday>.
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