Saint Valentine's Day

British  

noun

1. Feb 14, the day on which valentines are exchanged, originally connected with the pagan festival of Lupercalia

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Example Sentences

When the strands coalesce — and that knitting is both obvious and heartfelt — the novel motors on at blinding speed, incorporating broken families, bottomless desire for revenge, and a denouement that makes the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre seem like mere trifle.

From New York Times

In 1928, Al Capone bought a Palm Island mansion from brewery heir Clarence Busch, and in 1929, he threw a lavish party there the same night that hit men killed rival mobsters in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, giving himself a copper-bottomed alibi.

From Washington Post

Constructed of limestone trucked in from Indiana, the ornate, seven-story Cook County Criminal Courts Building, at 2650 West California Avenue, in Chicago, has seen its share of historic trials and media scrums since it first opened, weeks after the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, in 1929.

From The New Yorker

I thought it might be Saint Valentine's day.

From Literature

The published photo cropped out another lawyer, Benjamin Epstein, and expunged a March 1929 calendar behind the men that would have supported the published caption that said the photo was taken “a month after the 1929’s Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

From Washington Post