Red-letter Day

A lucky day; a day to be recalled with delight. In almanacks, saintsʹ days and holidays are printed in red ink, other days in black.

“That day, … writes the doctor, was trulya red-letter day to me.”—Wauters: Stanley’s Emin Expedition, chap. vi. p. 111.

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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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