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maundy thursday
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun maundy thursday has 1 sense
- maundy thursday(n = noun.time) holy thursday - the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper; Array is a kind of christian holy day
CIDE DICTIONARY
maundy thursday, [OE. maunde a command, OF. mandé, L. mandatum, from mandare to command. See called from the ancient custom of washing the feet of the poor on this day, which was taken to be the fulfillment of the “new commandment,” John xiii. 5, 34. ].
The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday. [1913 Webster]
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