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Red-letter day

noun

A memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars).

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"Red-letter day" Quotes from Famous Books

... kneeling on the floor by the open window, the fresh, soft summer breezes from the blue lake far below stirring her hair and kissing her forehead! How doubly and trebly fair she had been wont to fancy everything looked on that "letter day" of hers,—that red-letter day,—that golden-letter day! ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... critical points in his career may be reckoned by his relatives, they are scarcely calculated to prove equally epochal to the man himself. In a community where next to no note is ever taken of the anniversary of his birth, some doubt as to the special significance of that red-letter day may not unnaturally creep into his own mind. While in regard to his death, although it may be highly flattering for him to know that he will certainly become somebody when he shall have ceased, practically, ...

— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell

Words linked to "Red-letter day" : day