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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



... and the little boy, his grandson, sat together in the shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard, watching the "Decoration Day Parade," as it passed up the long street; and when the last of the veterans was out of sight the grandfather murmured the words of the tune that came drifting back from the now distant band at the head ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington


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


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