black monday

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black monday - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Black Monday \Black" Mon`day\
     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. --Stow.
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              Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a
              bleeding on Black Monday last.        --Shak.
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     2. The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by
        English schoolboys. --Halliwell.
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