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evening
Shrove-Tuesday, the succeeding day being Ash -Wednesday, the first of the Lenten fast. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The period following sunset with which the Jewish day began (Gen. 1:5; Mark 13:35). The Hebrews reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Ex. 16:12: 30:8; 12:6 (marg.); Lev. 23:5 (marg. R.V., "between the two evenings"). The "first evening" was that period when the sun was verging towards setting, and the "second evening" the moment of actual sunset. The word "evenings" in Jer. 5:6 should be "deserts" (marg. R.V.).
Shrove-Tuesday, the succeeding day being Ash -Wednesday, the first of the Lenten fast. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose