| 单词 | black-letter day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-letter day black-letter day n. 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; cf. red-letter day n. at red letter n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > fact of being inauspicious > unlucky or inauspicious day Childermas day1711 black-letter day1757 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii. 10 O! the month of November, She'll have cause to remember As a black letter day all the days of her life. 1846 Ecclesiologist Jan. 31 We are sorry to find that the modern Calendar presents us only with a selection of the black-letter days. 1883 Churchman Jan. 308 It is hardly correct to describe the ‘black-letter days’ as festivals of the Church of England. 1921 Nature 10 Nov. 331/2 April 22, 1915, when the Germans sent great volumes of the deadly chlorine gas against the Allied lines, is a black-letter day in the annals of warfare. 2008 Church Times 31 Oct. 12/2 This particular Marian feast..reappeared as a black-letter day in 1662, since when it has received fuller recognition in calendrical revisions. < as lemmas |
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