black-letter day
Typography
noun
A day in the church calendar marked in black letters (as opposed to the red letters traditionally used to mark saints' days); (hence) an inauspicious day.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), writer.
- third-degree
- third estate
- third eye
- third eyelid
- third force
- third-generation
- third-hand
- third heaven
- Third International
- third-level
- thirdly
- third man
- third market
- third party
- third person
- third-person shooter
- third position
- Third Programme
- third rail
- third-rate
- third-rater
- third reading
- Third Reich
- Third Republic
- third sector