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{n} the first day of Lent
A Christian day of penitence, the first day of Lent. It is a movable feast which takes place 40 days before Easter (excluding Sundays)
(Din) The first day of Lent in the Western Christian Church, marked by services of penitence. From the custom of marking the foreheads of penitents with ashes on that day

Basel Carnival starts at precisely four o'clock in the morning on the Monday after Ash Wednesday, the firs day of Lent, and lasts 72 hours to minute.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, on which many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality. the first day of Lent
(Christianity) first day of Lent (40 day period leading up to Easter)
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
the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance