Decoration Day
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]So called from the practice of decorating the military graves with flowers.
Noun
[edit]- (US, dated) Memorial Day.
- 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 16:
- When Carney heard they were renaming Decoration Day and moving it from May 30th to the last Monday in May, he hadn’t seen the point.
References
[edit]- “Decoration Day”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.