Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUIN-QUA-GES'I-MA
QUIN'I-NA, or QUIN'I-AQUIN-QUAN'GU-LAR
QUIN-QUA-GES'I-MA, n. [L. fifty.]
Quinquagesima Sunday, so called as being about the fiftieth day before Easter; Shrove Sunday. Encyc.
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