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Dominion Day

British  

noun

  1. the former name for Canada Day

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The estate was given to the nation by King Edward VII on his Coronation Day the following year.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2023

Poulet Reine Elizabeth, or coronation chicken, was created by the Cordon Bleu cookery school for the Queen's Coronation Day banquet in 1953.

From BBC • May 12, 2022

There is a youthful Queen Mother in 1939, and her daughter, Elizabeth II, on Coronation Day, in 1953.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2015

Thursday was supposed to be Coronation Day, at least the way Bud Selig planned it.

From Los Angeles Times

She had few amusements and holidays compared with the manifold pleasures that children have nowadays, though she had one holiday which the Revolution struck from our calendar—the King's Coronation Day.

From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green

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