desmanche

Norman

Alternative forms

• dîmmaunche, dinmaunche (continental Norman)
• daimanche, dêmanche, dinmanche (Guernsey)
• Dînmanche (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French diemenche, from Latin dies Dominica (“day of the Lord”).

Noun

desmanche m (plural desmanches)

1. (Guernsey) Sunday
   • 2006, Marie de Garis, ‘Enne p'tite sornaette’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 26:

     Tous les desmanches, en sortànt d'l'éghise les v'là, bras-d'sus, bras-sous, à faire aen p'tit tour. (Every Sunday, on coming out of the church, there they were, arm in arm, off on a little walk.)

Derived terms

• Desmanche des Rameaux

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Portuguese

Verb

desmanche

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