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Decoration Day   /dˌɛkərˈeɪʃən deɪ/   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



... produced by a whole school or group of schools, by groups of social settlements, communities, and cities, in parks, armories, woodland spaces or meadows on such occasions as the Fourth of July, Decoration Day, Bunker Hill Day, Labor Day, during Old Home Week, or for any special city or town celebration. The indoor arrangement of the same pageant is also suitable for whole schools, or groups of schools, groups of settlements, communities, villages, cities: in armories, school halls, ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay

... End Railway Company is the factor[42] which can remedy all this. 2. Addison's "Cato" was a success. 3. Decoration Day is a fitting observance of those who gave their lives for their country. 4. At the end of each day the teams[43] are so broken up that they have to go into the repair-shop, where the carpenter and blacksmith are able to fix any part of them. 5. The majority of the news is unfavorable. ...
— Practical Exercises in English • Huber Gray Buehler

... 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



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