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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "the giving of thanks," from thanks (n.) + present participle of give (v.). In the specific sense of "public celebration acknowledging divine favors" thanksgiving dates from 1630s (the first one in America was held October 1621 by Plymouth Colony ...
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Thanksgiving, Adrian Orange & Her Band, and AOK, are the names under which Portland , Oregon singer/songwriter Adrian Orange (born March 20, 1986) performs. First adopting the "Thanksgiving" moniker around 1999–2000, Orange played experimental folk music, ...
Usage examples of thanksgiving.
Grandma Lynn was due for Thanksgiving, and Lindsey had kept to a beautifying regime Grandma had set up for her through letters.
She planned on knocking Phil out with a real homey, come-to-Mama Thanksgiving feast.
A few days before Thanksgiving Night, Malemute Kid made another call on Mrs.
Joharra held a parade and a service of thanksgiving in the Sanctia Matra Serenissa.
Thanksgiving, to both the restricted and the restrictors, seemed to be just the sort of excuse the general would be pleased to have available.
I will even ask the mother to make for me a rare salmagundi which we lads, who were so rated by the Heer Governor, will ourselves give to him as our Thanksgiving offering, for the Heer Governor, so folk do say, doth rarely like the salmagundi.
England home three days before Thanksgiving, had whispered in her ear.
Then the faces vanished from the two little windows, and Submit and Sarah went down to their Thanksgiving dinners.
Esteem Elliott was even more troubled than the rest of Colchester, for was not her buxom daughter, and only child, Prudence Ann, to be married on Thanksgiving Day to the son of a great magnate in the neighbouring town of Hebron?
Colchester molasses famine, and the consequent postponement of their Thanksgiving, naturally spread throughout all the surrounding towns.
Since that time, almost without interruption, Thanksgiving has been kept by the people of New England as the great family festival of the year.
Fisherman Jones of much use, but it was he who caught Miltiades and made the Thanksgiving dinner possible.
To be exhorted and told of his shortcomings, and then furnished with a turkey at Thanksgiving, was a yearly part of his family program.
Bill, whom the Cambridge college authorities released, as they did all the other youngsters of the land, for Thanksgiving Day, made a breezy stir among them all, especially with the young cousins of the feminine gender.
But on Thanksgiving Day, at least, every year this marvel was effected in our best room.