Low Sunday
[Cf. quot. 1866.]
The Sunday next after Easter Sunday.
| 1431 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 275 Y⊇ sonday next aftyr low-sonday. 1511 Nottingham Rec. III. 329 In ye weke next after Lowe Sondey. a 1633 Austin Medit. (1635) 168 Low-Sunday. Inferius Pascha. The Lower Easter-Sunday. 1710 Hearne Collect. 16 Apr. (O.H.S.) II. 373 This Day being Low-Sunday. 1866 Annot. Bk. Com. Pr. 107 The popular name of Low Sunday has probably arisen from the contrast between the joys of Easter and the first return to ordinary Sunday services. |