Decoration Day Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun legal holiday in the United States, last Monday in May; commemorates the members of the United States armed forces who were killed in war
    Memorial Day.

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  1. a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. U.S.

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