Bible Dictionaries
Ash Wednesday
Webster's Dictionary
The first day of Lent; - so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ash Wednesday'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/ash-wednesday.html. 1828.