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Palm Sunday
The Sunday next before Easter, observed in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem; in the mediæval church, and still in the Roman, Greek, and other churches, by processions in which branches of palm or (in northern regions) other trees (see palm n.1 2, 4) are carried.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xix. 29 margin, Ðys ᵹebyrað feower wucon ær middan wyntra & on palm-sunnandæᵹ. c1290Beket 1855 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 159 Ase ore louerd a-palme-sonenday. c1300St. Brandan 348 Aboute Palm-sonede hi bihulde about faste. 1375Barbour Bruce xv. 100 [Thai] helde the sege full stalwardly Quhill palmesonday wes passit by. c1449Pecock Repr. (Rolls) I. 202 In eeldir daies, whanne processioun was mad in the Palme-Sundai bifore masse. 1530Palsgr. 251/2 Palmesonday, pasques flevry, dimanche de blanches. 1645Evelyn Diary Mar., [At Rome] On Palm Sunday there was a greate procession after a papal masse. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxi, On the 30th of March next to come, being Palm Sunday.
attrib.1563Foxe A. & M. 1712/2 Vpon Satterdaye being Palme Sonday Euen. 1627Drayton Miseries Q. Margaret in Batt. Agincourt etc. 99 Fatall Towton that Palme-Sunday fight. 1874in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 109 note, The battle of Towton, which was called Palm-Sunday Field.
So † Palmsun even, the eve of Palm Sunday (obs.); also ˈPalmsun a., occurring on or about Palm Sunday (cf. Whitsun); ˈPalmsun v. dial. (see quot. 1779).
1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxviii. 218 On Palmsoneuin this paper I compleit. c1605Acc.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary XXXII. 213 The 21 day of Aprill, beinge palme sonn even. 1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 580 With us in the North, the children go out into the fields..a palmsoning or palmsning, as they call it, and gather the flowering buds of the sallow. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 43 The Palmsun Horse Show, at Malton. |