Synonyms for red-letter

Grammar : Adj

Spell : red-let-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛdˈlɛt ər

Définition of red-letter

adj important

Example sentences :

This may be termed the red-letter year of the Canadian post-office.
Extract from : « The Stamps of Canada » by Bertram Poole

That will make it another kind of red-letter day—S for S'prise.
Extract from : « The Goody-Naughty Book » by Sarah Cory Rippey

Phœbe's graduation from the Greenwald High School was her red-letter day.
Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers

However that may be, certain it is that this is a red-letter night at the Mermaid.
Extract from : « Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess » by Anna Benneson McMahan

The girl came to count that a red-letter day on which she did not see her mistress.
Extract from : « A Forgotten Hero » by Emily Sarah Holt

"I assure you that for me this is a red-letter day," I added.
Extract from : « The Author Of Beltraffio » by Henry James

To Toni, spending her life in dingy Brixton, this afternoon was a red-letter day.
Extract from : « The Making of a Soul » by Kathlyn Rhodes

I used to live on his letters, and the day when he came home was a red-letter day.'
Extract from : « Lover or Friend » by Rosa Nouchette Carey

He was ravenous for the sweets that only on red-letter days he had ever tasted in his life.
Extract from : « When God Laughs and Other Stories » by Jack London

The 16th of November was a red-letter day, for on it we crossed the last sand-ridge—in lat.
Extract from : « Spinifex and Sand » by David W Carnegie

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