Gang Mondayn.
/ɡaŋ ˈmʌndeɪ/, /ɡaŋ ˈmʌndi/, U.S. /ɡæŋ ˈmənˌdeɪ/, /ɡæŋ ˈməndi/ Now historical.
Monday in Rogation week, the first of the Gang Days (see Gang Day n.), during which religious processions take place.
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1523 Househ. Bk. Earl of Surrey 11 May in F. M. Eden State of Poor (1797) III. App. p. cxvii Gaynge Munday.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 654/2 The Saterdaye before gange Mondaye.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 317 There would not one learned Papist be left aliue on gang Monday.
1624 J. Jeffrie Will in Gentleman's Mag. (1815) Aug. 120 I give 30 shillings to be distributed to and amongst the poor people..and six shillings worth of twopenny bread every Gang Monday.
1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor III. App. p. cxvii Gang Monday, in Rogation Week, is so called from being the time of going Perambulations, &c.
a1862 G. F. Bridges Oxf. Reformers & Eng. Church Princ. (1908) i. 119 On the Gang Monday (two days after), about ten o'clock, Roger Clarke was brought out of prison.
1879 St. Nicholas Apr. 391/1 On Gang Monday morning, all the boys went to the church-yard.
1951 Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 24 36 After 1576, ale is not specifically mentioned except in connection with Gang Monday celebrations.
2006 J. Wilson in J. Wilson et al. Country & City 14 Thus upon ‘Gang’ Monday the grammar school pupils joined a procession and a ‘scholar’ from Cambridge preached a sermon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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