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Mothering Sunday

noun

, British.


Mothering Sunday

/ ˈmʌðərɪŋ /

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

In a statement, released through Cambridgeshire Police, his mother said she did not know why she had not heard from her son on Mothering Sunday.

From BBC

On Sunday, a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, surrounded by her children and reportedly taken by her husband Prince William, was posted, along with a note signed “C,” in honor of the U.K.’s Mothering Sunday.

True to modernism’s great subjects — sex and death — “Mothering Sunday” centers on the costs of their repression, as well as their annihilating, liberating properties.

“Mothering Sunday” neatly embodies all the promises and pitfalls of literary adaptation.

Husson films “Mothering Sunday” in extreme close-ups and quick, epigrammatic shots, jumping back and forth in time to Jane and Josh’s meeting “before the boys were killed,” and forward to the 1950s and beyond.

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