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Name day   /neɪm deɪ/   Listen
Name day

noun
1.
The feast day of a saint whose name one bears.






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"Name day" Quotes from Famous Books



... coming you hide everything in the shop. It isn't only that he wants a few delicacies and fineries. He takes every bit of trash, too—prunes that have been in the barrel seven years and that even the boy in my shop would not eat, and he grabs a fist full. His name day is St. Anthony's, and you'd think there's nothing else left in the world to bring him and that he doesn't want any more. But no, you must give him more. He says St. Onufry's is also his name day. What's to be done? ...
— The Inspector-General • Nicolay Gogol



Words linked to "Name day" :   saint's day



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