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The Oxford Companion to Australian History
16 February 1983 (named because the day fell on Ash Wednesday of the Christian calendar), was the worst day of
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
The first day of *Lent. It was understood by the 7th century as occurring 40 days (not counting Sundays)
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
So-called because of the practice of marking with ash the foreheads of clergy and people at the beginning of Lent
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
the first day of Lent in the Western Christian Church, marked by services of penitence, and so named from the custom of marking the foreheads of penitents with ...
