| 单词 | columbus day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasColumbus Day 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific Day of the Dead1834 Columbus Day1892 Australia Day1911 the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > anniversary of specific things Gunpowder day1613 regnal day1877 Columbus Day1892 diamond jubilee1897 Victoria Day1901 Gallipoli Day1915 Sadie Hawkins1938 1890 Cent. Mag. Jan. 479/1 (heading) Columbus's Day.] 1892 Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Oct. 5/4 Reading celebrated Columbus Day with a magnificent demonstration of its civic societies, schools, industries..and military. 1906 Hearing 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’. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov. 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. 1995 San 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. < as lemmas |
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