See also:

• MONDAY (in O.E. Monandaeg, the moon's day, a translation of the Late Lat. Lunae dies, from which the French lundi is taken)

MONDAY (in O.E. Monandaeg, the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon's See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. Lunae See also:

• DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

dies, from which the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French lundi is taken)  , the second See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day of the See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week (see See also:

• CALENDAR

CALENDAR) . The day has been humorously canonized as St See also:

• MONDAY (in O.E. Monandaeg, the moon's day, a translation of the Late Lat. Lunae dies, from which the French lundi is taken)

Monday, the festival of cobblers, who seldom See also:

• WORK

work on Mondays, and were supposed not to know exactly on which day St See also:

• CRISPIN

Crispin's (their See also:

• PATRON

patron See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint) festival See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell, See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save that it should be a Monday, and thus celebrated each Monday in the See also:

• YEAR

year as a See also:

• HOLIDAY

holiday so as to be certain to See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the day . In some parts of See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire any holiday is called Cobblers' Monday . Collop Monday, in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, is the Monday before Shrove Tuesday, so called in allusion to the dish of fried eggs and See also:

• BACON
• BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
• BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
• BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
• BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
• BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
• BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)

bacon, and slices of salted, dried See also:

• MEAT

meat, called collops, taken on that day preparatory to the Lenten fast . Plough Monday in England is the Monday after Twelfth Day, the first Monday after See also:

• EPIPHANY, FEAST OF

Epiphany, in allusion to the fact that in See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval times the ploughmen had their fete-day and went around the villages begging plough-See also:

• MONEY

money . The See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of See also:

• LONDON

London holds a See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court of Wardmote at the See also:

• GUILDHALL

Guildhall on Plough Monday of each year, to receive returns from the wards of the See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election of See also:

• COMMON

common councilmen and to hear petitions against such returns .