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Green Thursday

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Maundy Thursday, the great day of absolution in the Lutheran Church. (German, Grün-donnerstag; in Latin, dies viridium, Luke xxiii. 31.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Green Hands (a nautical phrase)
Green Horse (The)
Green Howards (The)
Green Isle
Green Knight (The)
Green Labour
Green Linnets
Green Man
Green Room (The)
Green Sea
Green Thursday
Green Tree
Green Wax
Green as Grass
Green Bag Inquiry
Green Baize Road (Gentlemen of the)
Green-Eyed Jealousy or Green-eyed Monster
Green in my Eye
Green Man and Still
Green Ribbon Day
Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies