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Bloomsday
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English
Etymology
From the name of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Ulysses (novel) Ulysses + en -s- day 1.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbluːmz.deɪ/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bloomsday.wav Southern England
en Blooms day
Noun
An annual celebration (on 16 June, in Dublin and elsewhere) of the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the events depicted in his novel Ulysses (novel) Ulysses.
en 1993 William Kennedy Riding the Yellow Trolley Car 9780140159929 132 https://books.google.com/books?id=0Yp23_Fv_QgC&q=%22last+Bloomsday%22&dq=%22last+Bloomsday%22&hl=en&cd=2&source=gbs_api I happened into a meeting of the James Joyce Society last Bloomsday (June 16) at the Gotham Book Mart in New York, an unlikely stop for me; for such gatherings usually have the odor of formaldehyde about them. But not this one.
en eponyms terms derived from fiction
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en terms interfixed with -s-