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All Fools' Day

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noun

  1. April Fools' Day See April fool

"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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According to custom, the strike began on the first minute of All Fools' Day, but affected no mine schedules until 24 hours later.

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Ever since All Fools' Day, 1949, when it was taken away from prison authority and given to the Ministry of Health, the big, grim hospital has been known officially as the Broadmoor Institution.

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All Fools' Day in other lands, was celebrated by a monarchist outbreak in Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

On All Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners.

From Time Magazine Archive

However that may be, he was a nine-days’ wonder, for from All Fools’ Day to the morning of April 10 society in London was in a state of abject panic.

From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

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