Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
- The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.
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By January 21st, Black Monday was upon us, the Spanish stock market registered its worst fall since 1987 with a drop of 7.54 percent, the Bombay stock exchange slid 7.41 percent, as brokers were unable to pay stock exchanges the money which they owed on the shares they had bought.
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So, there was Black Monday 20 years ago, and I would say it's a bleak Friday.
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