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Decoration Day
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English
Etymology
So called from the practice of decorating the military graves with flowers.
Noun
? Decoration Day
en US dated Memorial Day.
en 2023 Colson Whitehead Crook Manifesto Fleet 16 When Carney heard they were renaming Decoration Day and moving it from May 30th to the last Monday in May, he hadn’t seen the point.
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