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red-letter

[ red-let-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

marked by red letters, as festival days in the church calendar.
memorable; especially important or happy:
a red-letter day in his life.
(of a Bible) having the quoted words of Jesus appear in red type:
a red-letter edition;
the red-letter New Testament presented at her baptism.

First recorded in 1660–70

Turns out, after all, to be a red-letter day or, that is, a brown-liquid evening.

Our run from Hereford up the Wye Valley to the sea, we agreed was one of our red-letter days.

But the longest red-letter day has its ending, and time and tide beckon one with the brutality of an impatient jailer.

Phœbe's graduation from the Greenwald High School was her red-letter day.

However that may be, certain it is that this is a red-letter night at the Mermaid.

The morning when were produced these charming little miracles remains a red-letter day in our household.

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