Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative form of red letter day
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars)
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red phrases /words
how red is used
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Phrases from British novels, between ...
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Daze days
washday, doomsday, heyday, workaday, payday, everyday, holiday, holy day, holyday, playday, birthday, rudmasday and 39 more...
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BrainyBabe Rises in salary had been the landmarks in his life, the clues to its red-letter days. - ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931. Dec 23, 2008