Hi There's a variety of answers on the web. The most intriguing is that it is from old religious verse and refers to faith practices in which it is respectful for a man to visit the graves of his relatives three times a day, but a woman is not permitted to enter a graveyard except, of course, on the day of her burial I have no idea if that's right: it's an interesting suggestion Dave
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There's a variety of answers on the web. The most intriguing is that it is from old religious verse and refers to faith practices in which it is respectful for a man to visit the graves of his relatives three times a day, but a woman is not permitted to enter a graveyard except, of course, on the day of her burial
I have no idea if that's right: it's an interesting suggestion