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anniversary day

British  

noun

  1. a day for celebrating the foundation date of one of the former Provinces

"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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In the morning, it’ll be Sudden Departure anniversary day, and Kevin will make a last-ditch trip to another dimension, from which he may never return.

From New York Times May 21, 2017

On our anniversary day, he gave me his—wait for it—wisdom tooth.

From Slate Apr. 14, 2014

But many stubborn Wrest Berliners were not content simply to meditate when anniversary day arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brinkley attends a reunion in Chicago of the U.S. flyers who bombed Hiroshima, and he also goes to Hiroshima for memorial services held on anniversary day last summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

As recently as January 8, 1914, a handsome new series of stamps was issued in Egypt, on the anniversary day of the accession of the now deposed Khedive, Abbas II.

From The Postage Stamp in War by Melville, Fred. J.

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