day of truce, a court held by the Wardens of the Marches (of England and Scotland), or the day appointed for this, on which a truce was observed…
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| 释义 | the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc. (26) day of truce1486 day of truce, a court held by the Wardens of the Marches (of England and Scotland), or the day appointed for this, on which a truce was observed… Evil May Dayc1590 1 May 1517, on which London apprentices attacked foreign artisans and merchants on account of their advantages in trade (chiefly allusive in early… Bonfire Night1661 spec. Chiefly British. The night of 5 November, on which bonfires are lit to commemorate the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, such… Pope Day1769 the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November, marked by the burning of popes (and occasionally the Devil or Guy Fawkes) in effigy. Pope Night1773 the evening of the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot; cf. Pope Day n. the Fourth (of July)1779 esp. with ellipsis of ‘day’. the Fourth (of July) U.S., the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; also attributive. Also quasi-n. in plural… Town Taking Day1788 4 December 1688, the day on which Hull was secured for William III (William of Orange) as part of the Glorious Revolution; the anniversary of this… Independence Day1791 attributive and in other combinations. Independent Day1803 = Independence Day at independence, n. compounds. Guy Fawkes day1825 Guy Fawkes day (night), 5 Nov., the anniversary of the ‘Gunpowder plot’. Also elliptical. Bastille Day1837 the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, celebrated as a national holiday in France; = Quatorze Juillet, n. Trafalgar Day1837 the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Turkey Day1870 Thanksgiving Day, in the United States. Canada Day1882 A day celebrating or devoted to Canada and Canadians; now spec. a national holiday observed in Canada on 1 July, originally commemorating the… Juneteenth1890 19 June, celebrated as a holiday commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves in Texas on that date in 1865. Also more fully Juneteent… flag-day1894 (a) U.S. the anniversary of the adoption by Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the American national flag on June 14th, 1777; (b) a day on which… Patriots' Day1894 the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in the American War of Independence, 19 April 1775, observed since 1894 as a legal holiday… Remembrance Day1895 a day dedicated to remembering the dead or marking an anniversary; spec. that kept in remembrance of those killed in the world wars of 1914–18… twelfth1896 elliptical. The 12th of July, celebrated by Protestants in Northern Ireland as the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne (1 July (Old Style) 1690)… Quatorze Juillet1899 The anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, celebrated as a national holiday in France; Bastille Day. quatorze1915 Usually with capital initial. = Quatorze Juillet, n. Armistice Day1918 (the anniversary of) the day on which the armistice between the Allies and Germany was concluded, 11 November 1918; cf. Remembrance Day n. at rememb… Poppy Day1921 a day on which the dead of the First World War (1914–18), and later also of other conflicts, are commemorated by the wearing of an artificial poppy… Remembrance Sunday1925 Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest to 11 November. VJ-day1944 Used attributively and absol. to denote the victory of the Allied forces over those of Japan during the war of 1939–45; esp. as VJ-day, designating… Commonwealth Day1958 a day dedicated to the celebration of the Commonwealth (sense 6). |
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