A nickname for Palm Sunday, formerly common in Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire, where figs were eaten on this day, because Christ had wanted to eat some when travelling to Jerusalem (Mark 11: 12-14) (Wright and Lones, 1936: i. 59-9).
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