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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun December 28 or 29, observed in commemoration of the slaughter of male infants in Bethlehem during Herod the Great's attempt to kill the infant Jesus.
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- noun December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
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