Care Sunday Sc.
Also cair-.
[German has the corresp. kar-freitag (in MHG. karvrîtac, kartac) Good Friday, and karwoche (also in MHG.) Passion week; kar-sonntag appears not to be in use. OHG. chara, OE. caru, care in its earlier sense of ‘sorrow, trouble, grief’.]
‘According to Bellenden, Sunday immediately preceding Good Friday; but now generally used for the fifth in Lent’ (Jamieson).
| 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 497 Thus entrit Prince James in Scotland; and come, on Care Sonday, in Lentern, to Edinburgh [Boeth. dominicae passionis obviam.] 1538 Aberd. Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) Betuixt this & Cair Sonday. a 1575 Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 23 Lestit quhill caris sonday in Lentrone. 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 415 Care, or Carle Sunday is the fifth Sunday in Lent. |