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(Monsieur). A dun. The term is from Molière's Don Juan, and would be, in English, Mr. Sunday. The word damanche is a corruption and contraction of dies Domanica (the Lord's day).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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