Alb Sunday

proper noun

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

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Quasimodo
OriginEcclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs →
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Meanings

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

    Synonyms: Quasimodo

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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Quasimodo
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quasimodo

Origin

  1. Ecclesiastical LatinDominica in Albīs
  2. EnglishAlb Sunday

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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APA

Alb Sunday. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alb%20Sunday

MLA

“Alb Sunday.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alb%20Sunday. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Alb Sunday,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alb%20Sunday.

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