GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Decoration Day. 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.]
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
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   Memorial , a. [F. mémorial, L. memorialis, fr. memoria. See Memory.]
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   Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
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   There high in air, memorial of my name,
   Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
   Pope.
   
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   Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
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   Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
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   This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.
   Skeat.
   
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   Memorial Day. See Memorial Day in the vocabulary. Also called Decoration Day. [U.S.]
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   Memorial Day. 
   A day, originally May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65) in the United States; Also called Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the States. In the Southern States, the Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
   A day designated for commemoration of all of the war dead of the United States, celebrated on the last Monday in May in most states. It supersedes the original Memorial Day celebrated May 30th.
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