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black letter days

black letter days is the plural of black letter day.

Meaning of black letter day

Noun

black letter day (plural black letter days)

  1. A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day.
    • So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves, only on simple black-letter days when the Herald Angels have not been raising expectations early in the morning.1877 December 3, George Eliot, “Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones”, in J. W. Cross, editor, George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals, volume III, published 1885, page 233

Questions about black letter days

What is black letter days the plural of?
Black letter days is the plural of black letter day.

Words near black letter days in the dictionary

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  4. black letter
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  6. black letter days
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  9. black liberation
  10. black licorice
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