quinquagesima

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'quinquagesima liba septimamque vestris addimus hanc focis acerram'; ix.

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  1. A period of fifty days.
  2. Quinquagesima Sunday the Sunday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday, being the fiftieth day before Easter (both inclusive), and the last Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.

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  1. Latin, feminine of quinquagesimus, fiftieth, from quinquaginta, fifty: see fifty.
 

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