Mothering Sunday
Meaning
Proper Noun
- The fourth Sunday of Lent, three Sundays before Easter, now especially as a day to honor one's mother.
Related
Similar words
- Mid-Lent, Mid-Lent Sunday
- Mothering Day, Mother's Day
- Laetare Sunday
- Simnel Sunday, Refection Sunday, Refreshment Sunday
- Rose Sunday, Sunday of the Five Loaves
Origin
- From the former British custom of visiting mother churches (q.v.) at Mid-Lent, which by the English Civil War had passed on to servants receiving leave to go a-mothering, visiting and providing small gifts to their families. Revived as a national tradition in the early 20th century after the model of Mother's Day in the United States.
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