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black monday
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black monday,
- 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. Stow. [1913 Webster]"Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last." [1913 Webster]
- The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
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