Empire Day
Americannoun
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(in Canada) the last school day before Victoria Day, observed with patriotic activities in the schools.
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former name of Commonwealth Day.
noun
Example Sentences
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His guardian in England was Stella Monk, who worked for the Empire Day Movement promoting ties between schoolchildren in Britain and its colonies, and she took him to a prep school in Eastbourne.
From BBC • May 29, 2021
As schoolchildren, each donned a starched uniform and, on Empire Day, a holiday designed to instill in children a feeling of belonging to a great nation, waved the Union Jack.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2019
Happy Empire Day to you and yours at Xizor Construction.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2015
This little comedy was played in deadly earnest last week ironically enough on Empire Day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lalage was, in my opinion, herself guilty of something very like the sin of tommyrot when she mocked another bishop for a sermon he had preached on "Empire Day."
From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.
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