Whit|sun|day

Whit|sun|day
Whit|sun|day «HWIHT SUHN dee, -day; HWIHT suhn day», noun, or Whitsun Day,
the seventh Sunday after Easter; Pentecost.
[Old English Hwīta Sunnandæg < hwīt white + Sunnandæg Sunday (probably because of the custom of wearing white baptismal robes on this day)]

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