- whitsun farthings
- noun plural
Usage: usually capitalized W: offerings formerly made to the parish priest or to the mother church at Pentecost
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
whitsun farthings
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MCMXIV — (1914) is a poem written by English poet Philip Larkin. It was first published in the book The Whitsun Weddings in 1964. The poem is set in the 1914 England as people prepare to leave their homes and fight in the First World War. It is regarded… … Wikipedia
Pentecostals — Monies paid at *Whitsun by each household in a diocese to the mother church, as a token of obedience. These payments were sometimes known as smoke farthings as they were equivalent to a hearth tax. Cf. Pentecost … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
