Whit-Monday

She was very fond of that purse because Joe had brought it to her five years before when he and Alphy had gone to Belfast on a Whit-Monday trip.

Dubliners 2003

This is in preparation for the greatest holiday in the year, Whit-Monday, when all give themselves up to outdoor pleasure.

Denmark M. Pearson Thomson

Forty thousand children visited the Zoo on Whit-Monday, and one anxious father who had mislaid a couple of infants stayed for a long time in the reptile-house, looking suspiciously at the swollen appearance of the boa constrictor.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various

January -- Easter nor Whit-Monday, but as Mammy said: "A dinin 'des, dry so."

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

In some parts of Bohemia on Whit-Monday the young fellows disguise themselves in tall caps of birch bark adorned with flowers.

Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe 1922

At Wurmlingen, in Swabia, a score of young fellows dress themselves on Whit-Monday in white shirts and white trousers, with red scarves round their waists and swords hanging from the scarves.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers 1922

In a Bohemian village near Königgrätz on Whit-Monday the children play the king’s game, at which a king and queen march about under a canopy, the queen wearing a garland, and the youngest girl carrying two wreaths on a plate behind them.

Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe 1922

Thus in some villages of the Königgrätz district on Whit-Monday the girls assemble under one lime-tree and the young men under another, all dressed in their best and tricked out with ribbons.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers 1922

At Hildesheim five or six young fellows go about on the afternoon of Whit-Monday cracking long whips in measured time and collecting eggs from the houses.

Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe 1922

Clearly equivalent to this is the custom observed on Whit-Monday by Russian girls in the district of Pinsk.

Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe 1922