"black letter day" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: red letter day"
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          "ref": "1877 December 3, George Eliot, “Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones”, in J. W. Cross, editor, George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals, volume III, published 1885, page 233:",
          "text": "So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves, only on simple black-letter days when the Herald Angels have not been raising expectations early in the morning.",
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          "ref": "1893, Thomas De Quincey, “Conversation and Coleridge”, in Alexander H. Japp, editor, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, volume II, London: William Heinemann:",
          "text": "But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.",
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        "A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day."
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          "red letter day",
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        {
          "word": "black-letter day"
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  "word": "black letter day"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: red letter day"
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          "ref": "1877 December 3, George Eliot, “Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones”, in J. W. Cross, editor, George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals, volume III, published 1885, page 233:",
          "text": "So pray consider the kill-joy proposition as entirely retracted, and give us something of yourselves, only on simple black-letter days when the Herald Angels have not been raising expectations early in the morning.",
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          "text": "But the monsters who interrupt men in the middle of a sentence are to be found everywhere; and they are always practising. Red-letter days or black-letter days, festival or fast, makes no difference to them.",
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        "A day marked in ancient calendars in black letter, as distinguished from the more import red letter days; an inauspicious day."
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          "red letter day",
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      "word": "black-letter day"
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  "word": "black letter day"
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