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Black Letter Day

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An unlucky day; one to be recalled with regret. The Romans marked their unlucky days with a piece of black charcoal, and their lucky ones with white chalk.

Black-letter dogs. Literary antiquaries who poke and pry into every hole and corner to find out black-letter copies of books.


That from Gothic kennels eager strut.”


Matthias: Pursuits of Literature.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Black Genevan (A)
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Black Hole of Calcutta
Black Horse
Black Jack
Black Jack (A)
Black Joke
Black Leg
Black Letter
Black Letter Day
Black Lists
Black Looks
Black Mail
Black Man (The)
Black Maria
Black Monday
Black Money
Black Ox
Black Parliament
Black Prince