black letter day
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day.
Example Sentences
- "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."