red lettern.

Brit.

/ˌrɛd ˈlɛtə/, U.S.

/ˌrɛd ˈlɛdər/

Forms: see red adj. and n. and letter n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., letter n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + letter n.¹On the use of red pigment indicating significant letters in medieval manuscripts see rubricate v.

a. A character or word written or printed in red, typically in order to draw attention to particularly important or significant information. Chiefly in plural. Also figurative.In earlier use, esp. with reference to the convention of using red to indicate a saint's day or other Christian festival on an ecclesiastical calendar.

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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters

red lettera1387

blooming (initial) letter1713

miniature initial1895

versal1895

bloomer1899

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > double, important > letter in calendar indicating

red lettera1387

rubric1587

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 129 Phenix..by toke rede lettres to þe Phenices..For Pheniciens were þe firste fynderes of lettres, Ȝit we writeþ capital lettres wiþ reed colour.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxviii. 286 (MED) Thanne beheld he the blad of þe swerd..And Rede lettre he Aspide þat Onne atte laste, Wheche weren As Red as Any Blood.

a1475 (?1436) in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 13 (MED) Red letter in parchemyn Makyth a chyld good & fyn Lettrys to loke & se.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 83 We wryte yet in oure kalenders the hyghe festes wyth rede lettres of coloure of purpre.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 695/1 I did but onely colour them with red letters. And thus for matter of my Calendare enough.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 91 He has a booke in his pocket with red letters. Cade. Sonnes, hees a coniurer.

1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets i. 12 Warre is great A of ills, and Death is Z. In warres red Letters, Deaths feast-dayes are read.

1658 H. Plumptre in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 6 Enter it into your Calendar with red letters, that when it comes, it may be celebrated.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 15 If this were the Character of Primitive Saintship, the Apostle Paul must not have worn a Red Letter in our Enquirers Calendar.

1736 A. Pope Wks. (1736) IV. 77 The former was fined by the Court of King's Bench for publishing obscene books; the latter usually adorn'd his shop with titles in red letters.

1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iv. 60 Hush! you shall see her name to-morrow morning in red letters at the end of my list.

1879 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXV. 411 The hour which sovereign grace has marked with a red letter in the calendar of love!

1891 A. Austin Narrative Poems 147 Brother Benedict leaned, with intent to pray, And opened his book: with vellum bound; Within, red letters on faded ground; Pater, and Ave, and saving Creed.

1933 E. A. Robinson Talifer iv. 70 The day was going, He thought, and would be gone with nothing done Deserving a red letter; and he sighed.

1990 Paris Rev. Fall 209 One knows that across the country restaurants have framed notices announcing in large red letters the occupancy allowances.

†b. In extended use: the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholics collectively. Obsolete.In reference to Roman Catholics being considered particularly given to the observing of saints' days and other Christian festivals.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective

mother churchOE

mother kirkc1430

whore1530

Lady of Rome1574

Western Church1577

west1586

scarlet whore1590

Lady of Babylon1605

red letter1608

scarlet lady1807

scarlet woman1816

Latinism1920

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. i. sig. E I keepe no holy daies, nor fasts, but eate most flesh o'frydayes of all dayes i'the week:..and I doe hate the red letter, more then J follow the written verity.

1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot Ep. Ded. sig. A3 He that was caught and executed..was of the same Red-Letter, and had Masses sung for him after his death.

c1688 in Hardwick Trad. Lanc. (1872) 269 The fountain is called Saint Ellen's Well, to which place the vulgar neighbouring people of the Red letter do much resort.

2. A small moth, Agonopterix ocellana (family Oecophoridae), of Eurasia and North Africa, having a white spot ringed with red in the centre of the pale forewing. Also red-letter flat-body. rare.

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1845 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths II. 180 Depressaria ocellana (the red letter).

1959 R. D. Macleod Key to Names Brit. Butterflies & Moths 52/2 D. ocellana, Red-letter F[lat-body].

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as red-letter almanac, red-letter mark, red-letter name, etc.

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1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 20 These are red-letter names even in the almanacks of worldly wisdom.

1843 (title) The red letter almanack.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 81 My desire..gained me some red-letter marks at the war-office.

1910 (title) Holy Bible. Red letter edition.

1995 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 1 Dec. d7 The CMU loss is worth a red-letter mark for the future, especially for Miami fans.

C2.

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.

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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.

red-letter night n. figurative any significant, memorable, or happy night or evening.

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1842 Musical World 14 Apr. 117/3 Saturday was a red-letter night at this establishment.

1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 6 My red-letter nights were when he came over to my native town.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Apr. 17 A premiere in a German theatre is a red-letter night for any playwright.

† red-letter man n. Obsolete a Roman Catholic (cf. sense 1b).

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun]

papist1528

Romanist1534

Roman1537

Romist1543

papistic1545

popestant1549

flesh-maker1551

mass-monger1551

Romish1551

Pope catholicc1554

popeling1563

catholic1570

Romish Catholic1571

popera1577

Pope worshipper1579

papane1581

Roman Catholic1581

Cacolike1582

Cartholic1582

papisha1595

Babylonian1603

papal1611

popinian1613

Papalin1616

Romulist1620

papicolist1633

western1640

papagan1641

universalist1644

red-letter man1677

RC1691

Azymite1728

papalist1752

craw-thumper1786

catholicist1812

papisher1817

pontifical1832

Romanite1839

dogan1847

mickey1851

redneck1852

mackerel-snatcher1855

Latin1867

Romanensian1885

Roman candle1897

Mick1902

Mick Dooley1905

Mickey Doo1905

left-footer1911

Pape1927

right-footer1929

Doolan1940

tyke1941

Tim1958

mackerel-snapper1960

Teague1971

Mickey Doolan1972

1677 A. Marvell Season. Argument 13 Sir. Allen Apsley, the Kings Falconer,..a red letter man, if of any religion.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Red-letter-man, a Roman-catholic.

1715 His Majesty's Obligations to Whigs Plainly Proved 34 Unless all the Jacobites, Traytors and Scum of the Kingdom..are design'd for inferior Red-Letter Men.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red letter
释义	red lettern. Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈlɛtə/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈlɛdər/ Forms: see red adj. and n. and letter n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., letter n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + letter n.¹On the use of red pigment indicating significant letters in medieval manuscripts see rubricate v. 1. a. A character or word written or printed in red, typically in order to draw attention to particularly important or significant information. Chiefly in plural. Also figurative.In earlier use, esp. with reference to the convention of using red to indicate a saint's day or other Christian festival on an ecclesiastical calendar. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters red lettera1387 blooming (initial) letter1713 miniature initial1895 versal1895 bloomer1899 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > double, important > letter in calendar indicating red lettera1387 rubric1587 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 129 Phenix..by toke rede lettres to þe Phenices..For Pheniciens were þe firste fynderes of lettres, Ȝit we writeþ capital lettres wiþ reed colour. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxviii. 286 (MED) Thanne beheld he the blad of þe swerd..And Rede lettre he Aspide þat Onne atte laste, Wheche weren As Red as Any Blood. a1475 (?1436) in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 13 (MED) Red letter in parchemyn Makyth a chyld good & fyn Lettrys to loke & se. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 83 We wryte yet in oure kalenders the hyghe festes wyth rede lettres of coloure of purpre. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 695/1 I did but onely colour them with red letters. And thus for matter of my Calendare enough. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 91 He has a booke in his pocket with red letters. Cade. Sonnes, hees a coniurer. 1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets i. 12 Warre is great A of ills, and Death is Z. In warres red Letters, Deaths feast-dayes are read. 1658 H. Plumptre in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 6 Enter it into your Calendar with red letters, that when it comes, it may be celebrated. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum Introd. 15 If this were the Character of Primitive Saintship, the Apostle Paul must not have worn a Red Letter in our Enquirers Calendar. 1736 A. Pope Wks. (1736) IV. 77 The former was fined by the Court of King's Bench for publishing obscene books; the latter usually adorn'd his shop with titles in red letters. 1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iv. 60 Hush! you shall see her name to-morrow morning in red letters at the end of my list. 1879 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXV. 411 The hour which sovereign grace has marked with a red letter in the calendar of love! 1891 A. Austin Narrative Poems 147 Brother Benedict leaned, with intent to pray, And opened his book: with vellum bound; Within, red letters on faded ground; Pater, and Ave, and saving Creed. 1933 E. A. Robinson Talifer iv. 70 The day was going, He thought, and would be gone with nothing done Deserving a red letter; and he sighed. 1990 Paris Rev. Fall 209 One knows that across the country restaurants have framed notices announcing in large red letters the occupancy allowances. †b. In extended use: the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholics collectively. Obsolete.In reference to Roman Catholics being considered particularly given to the observing of saints' days and other Christian festivals. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective mother churchOE mother kirkc1430 whore1530 Lady of Rome1574 Western Church1577 west1586 scarlet whore1590 Lady of Babylon1605 red letter1608 scarlet lady1807 scarlet woman1816 Latinism1920 1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iii. i. sig. E I keepe no holy daies, nor fasts, but eate most flesh o'frydayes of all dayes i'the week:..and I doe hate the red letter, more then J follow the written verity. 1679 T. Oates True Narr. Horrid Plot Ep. Ded. sig. A3 He that was caught and executed..was of the same Red-Letter, and had Masses sung for him after his death. c1688 in Hardwick Trad. Lanc. (1872) 269 The fountain is called Saint Ellen's Well, to which place the vulgar neighbouring people of the Red letter do much resort. 2. A small moth, Agonopterix ocellana (family Oecophoridae), of Eurasia and North Africa, having a white spot ringed with red in the centre of the pale forewing. Also red-letter flat-body. rare. ΚΠ 1845 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths II. 180 Depressaria ocellana (the red letter). 1959 R. D. Macleod Key to Names Brit. Butterflies & Moths 52/2 D. ocellana, Red-letter F[lat-body]. Compounds C1. General attributive, as red-letter almanac, red-letter mark, red-letter name, etc. ΚΠ 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 20 These are red-letter names even in the almanacks of worldly wisdom. 1843 (title) The red letter almanack. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 81 My desire..gained me some red-letter marks at the war-office. 1910 (title) Holy Bible. Red letter edition. 1995 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 1 Dec. d7 The CMU loss is worth a red-letter mark for the future, especially for Miami fans. C2. a. 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. red-letter night n. figurative any significant, memorable, or happy night or evening. ΚΠ 1842 Musical World 14 Apr. 117/3 Saturday was a red-letter night at this establishment. 1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 6 My red-letter nights were when he came over to my native town. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Apr. 17 A premiere in a German theatre is a red-letter night for any playwright. b. † red-letter man n. Obsolete a Roman Catholic (cf. sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] papist1528 Romanist1534 Roman1537 Romist1543 papistic1545 popestant1549 flesh-maker1551 mass-monger1551 Romish1551 Pope catholicc1554 popeling1563 catholic1570 Romish Catholic1571 popera1577 Pope worshipper1579 papane1581 Roman Catholic1581 Cacolike1582 Cartholic1582 papisha1595 Babylonian1603 papal1611 popinian1613 Papalin1616 Romulist1620 papicolist1633 western1640 papagan1641 universalist1644 red-letter man1677 RC1691 Azymite1728 papalist1752 craw-thumper1786 catholicist1812 papisher1817 pontifical1832 Romanite1839 dogan1847 mickey1851 redneck1852 mackerel-snatcher1855 Latin1867 Romanensian1885 Roman candle1897 Mick1902 Mick Dooley1905 Mickey Doo1905 left-footer1911 Pape1927 right-footer1929 Doolan1940 tyke1941 Tim1958 mackerel-snapper1960 Teague1971 Mickey Doolan1972 1677 A. Marvell Season. Argument 13 Sir. Allen Apsley, the Kings Falconer,..a red letter man, if of any religion. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Red-letter-man, a Roman-catholic. 1715 His Majesty's Obligations to Whigs Plainly Proved 34 Unless all the Jacobites, Traytors and Scum of the Kingdom..are design'd for inferior Red-Letter Men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387
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