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noun
Black Monday  n.  
1.
Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. "Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last."
2.
The first Monday after the holidays; so called by English schoolboys.





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... pieces, with a loss of twenty-five to thirty thousand men, besides all its artillery and munitions, and Washington lay at the mercy of the Enemy, who were soon to advance to the capture and sack of our great commercial cities. Never before had so black a day as that black Monday lowered upon the loyal hearts of the North; and the leaden, weeping skies reflected and heightened, while they seemed to sympathize with, the general gloom. It would have been easy, with ordinary effort and care, to have gathered and remanded to their camps or forts ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan


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