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The name of Christopher Columbus, the explorer (1451–1506), used allusively for an explorer or discoverer.
1593G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 11 A new-found land of confuting commodities discouered, by this braue Columbus of tearmes. 1656Cowley Pind. Odes 27 Thou great Columbus of the Golden Lands of new Philosophies. 1680Oldham in Rochester's Poems 125 'Tis I, the bold Columbus, only I, Who must new Worlds, in Vice descry. 1826E. B. Browning Ess. Mind ii. 64 What tongue can syllable our Bacon's name..Sublime Columbus of the realms of Mind! 1882W. D. Hay Brighter Britain I. i. 11 A veritable cargo of Columbuses. 1927Melody Maker Sept. 938/1 We might hope for some musical Columbus to appear on the scenes.
▸ Columbus Day n. the twelfth of October as a celebration and public holiday, held in the U.S. and in some other parts of North and South America in commemoration of Columbus's first landing in the Americas on 12 October 1492.
In 1892, the anniversary was reckoned according to the Old Style calendar, and celebrated on the twenty-first of October; in subsequent practice, it came to be observed on the second Monday in October.
[1890Cent. Mag. Jan. 479/1 (heading) Columbus's Day.] 1892Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Oct. 5/4 Reading celebrated Columbus Day with a magnificent demonstration of its civic societies, schools, industries..and military. 1906Hearing before Comm. on Judiciary of U.S. House in relation to Columbus Day ((H.R. Doc. 830, 59th U.S. Congr. 2 Sess.)) 3, I shall..present my views in favor of my bill..to make the 12th day of October a legal holiday, to be called ‘Columbus Day’. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov.–Dec. 21/3 A fifth child of buona creanza, born in Genoa on Columbus Day (believe it or not), who had lived almost alone with books and family before he was thirty. 1995San Francisco Examiner (Electronic ed.) 13 Oct. The protest concided with Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated on October 12, the traditional Columbus Day, to protest 503 years of ‘genocide and racism’, as one speaker put it. |