| 单词 | red-letter day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-letter day red-letter day n. (a) (originally) a saint's day or other Christian festival conventionally indicated in the calendar by red letters; (b) (now also figurative) any significant, memorable, or happy day; cf. black-letter day n. at black letter n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > exciting or memorable day red-letter day1663 field day1827 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > double, important double feast?c1225 Great Dayc1350 red-letter day1663 doublec1690 feria1763 Greater Feria1763 1663 E. Gayton Relig. of Physician To Reader sig. a2 In my Mother the Church her spots are not black Foyles but red, the Red-letter daies being the Ornament of her Year. 1776 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1777) Pref. 8 The Calendar was crowded with Red-Letter Days, nominally..consecrated to Saints. 1811 S. T. Coleridge Lett. II. 566 To sit at the same table with Grattan, who would not think it a memorable honour, a red letter day in the almanac of his life? 1965 C. P. Pocknee Dearmer's Parson's Handbk. (ed. 13) xvi. 145 To Holy (or Red-letter) Days [the] 1928 [edition] has added St. Mary Magdalene, 22 July, and the Transfiguration of our Lord, 6 August. 2006 FIFA Mag. Oct. 29/1 It went down as a goalless draw and a red letter day in the history of Trinidad and Tobago. < as lemmas |
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