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What does red-letter mean?

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Adjective
  1. Particularly significant or positive.
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Today, as I said, is a blue-ribbon day, a red-letter day, or whatever one wants to call it.
Upon receiving his award, he said the day would go down in his diary as a red-letter day.
It must have seemed like a red-letter day for council employees as they received their new pay levels.
A red-letter day is important, like the feast days marked in red in church calendars.
Turns out, after all, to be a red-letter day or, that is, a brown-liquid evening.
Still, pub owners say, it was a red-letter day for business and they are planning a second block party for the first weekend of November.

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