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Ash Wednesday

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Noun

1. ash wednesday

the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ash Wednesday

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noun
the first day of Lent, named from the practice of Christians of placing ashes on their heads as a sign of penitence

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Ash Wednesday

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the first day of Lent and seventh Wednesday before Easter
so called from the practice of putting ashes on the forehead as a sign of penitence

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ash Wednesday

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n.
The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, on which many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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