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Decoration Day   /dˌɛkərˈeɪʃən deɪ/   Listen
Decoration Day

noun
1.
Legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war.  Synonym: Memorial Day.





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"Decoration Day" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt—me to be shot in two weeks and my only hope for help being in a government that's been dead so long that it isn't even remembered except on Decoration Day and when Joe Wheeler signs the voucher for his pay-check. But it was all there was in sight; and somehow I thought Doc Millikin had something up his old alpaca ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


Words linked to "Decoration Day" :   may, national holiday, legal holiday, Memorial Day, public holiday


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