black letter day

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

black letter days plural black-letter day alternative
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