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Decoration Day   Listen
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Decoration Day  n.  A day, May 30, originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; now called Memorial Day, and established as the last Monday in May, and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States. (U. S.)





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... was published some twenty years ago in a newspaper from which this reprint is made Decoration Day, 1915. ...
— Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 • Richard Lee Mason


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


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