A dun. The term is from Molière’s Don Juan, and would be, in English, Mr. Sunday. The word dimanche is a corruption and contraction of dies Dominʹica (the Lord’s day).
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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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