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Plough Monday

British

noun

the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house

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Originally it was held on the Tuesday following Plough Monday - the first Monday after Twelfth Night.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

A village is due to mark 50 years since it revived the ancient rural tradition of Plough Monday.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2022

For the first time in 300 years, the British festival of Plough Monday was being celebrated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a hard-working country Molly lent a helping hand in decorating her Johnny for Plough Monday, and finished him with an admiring exclamation of—'Lawks, John! thou dost look smart, surely!'

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

For Bessy is to the procession of Plough Monday what the leading figurante is to the opera or ballet, and dances about as gracefully as the hippopotami described by Dr. Livingstone.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

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