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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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"Decoration Day" Quotes from Famous Books



... record 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

... the Constance Colfax, began to run on her summer schedule after Decoration Day, many more summer tourists than usual got off the boat at Poketown to look about. The dock was so neat, and the surroundings of the landing so attractive, that these visitors were led to go further ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... had set on Decoration Day when Job rode Bess up once more to the old graveyard where Jane lay. Not often did he come here now—he felt that she was up among the stars; it was only the shroud of clay that lay under the sod—yet on this day when love scatters garlands over its dead, he had come to place a ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher

... An address delivered upon the invitation of the citizens of Brownsville, Pa., on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and also to celebrate the event of Decoration Day, May ...
— Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence - The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of - Slavery to the Present Time • Various



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



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