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Easter

noun

A Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

A wind from the east. Synonyms: east wind, easterly.

East

adjective

Situated in or facing or moving toward the east. Antonym: west.

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"Easter" Quotes from Famous Books

... It was Easter Sunday. The vicar of the little parish of Steynton, just outside Maidstone, was away for his holidays, and the Rev. Samuel Bishop had taken his place ...

— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... daughter of King Robert of Naples, who had caused her to be adopted as a member of the family of the Count d'Aquino, and to be married when very young to a Neapolitan nobleman. Boccaccio first saw her in the Church of San Lorenzo on the morning of Easter eve, in 1338, and their ensuing friendship was no secret to their world. For the entertainment of this youthful beauty he wrote his Filicopo, and the fair Maria is undoubtedly the heroine of several of his stories and poems. His father insisted upon his return to Florence in 1340, ...

— La Fiammetta • Giovanni Boccaccio

... green eyes That laughter could not touch, The dangers of those subtleties, The stealthy, clever hand, Should not affright you overmuch If you but understand How Judas, clad in Oxford grey,— Could walk abroad on Easter Day. ...

— The Five Books of Youth • Robert Hillyer

... verses which generations of British schoolboys have turned into Latin alcaics; and how often have we not 'sat under' this argument in church at Easter or when the preacher was improving a Harvest Festival? Examine it, and you see at once that the argument is not in pari materia; that all the true correspondence between man and the flower-seed begins and ends in this world. ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... special days; chiefly for little children Christmas stories Easter stories Thanksgiving stories Arbor Day stories ...

— Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours • Various

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