Brewer's: Green Thursday

Maunday Thursday, the great day of absolution in the Lutheran Church. (German, Grün-donnerstag; in Latin, dies viridium, Luke xxiii. 31.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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