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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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