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Quadragesima Sunday

Variant of Quadragesima

noun

Obsolete the forty days of Lent
the first Sunday in Lent
also Quadragesima Sunday

Origin: LL(Ec) < fem. of L quadragesimus, fortieth < quadraginta, forty < base of quattuor, four

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