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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Septuagesima Sunday

In round numbers, seventy days before Easter. The third Sunday before Lent. Really only sixty-eight days before Easter.

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

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