Meaning of black letter day | Babel Free

Definitions

A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day.

Examples

“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.”

“But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.”

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