Quinquagesima Sunday
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Quinquagesima Sunday the Sunday before the beginning of Lent. Quinquagesima comes from medieval Latin, from Latin
quinquagesimus ‘fiftieth’, on the pattern of
Quadragesima, because it is ten days before the forty penitential days of Lent.
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