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All Fools' day   /ɔl fulz deɪ/   Listen
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All Fools' Day  n.  The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. "The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"All fools' day" Quotes from Famous Books



... underground temples. The common people, who had for the last score of years taken shame to themselves for living under such a foolish king, embraced one another, and danced, and sang patriotic songs at every street-corner: the Lower Council met, and voted that, out of deference of his majesty, All Fools' Day should be stricken from the calendar: and Queen Pressina (one of the water folk) declared there were two ways of looking at everything, the while that she burned a quantity of private papers. Then at night were fireworks, the King made a speech, and to Manuel was ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell

... roused early this morning by the cry outside of "Get up! get up! There is a ship on fire ahead!" I got up instantly, dressed, and hastened on deck, like many more. But there was no ship on fire; and then we laughed, and remembered that it was All Fools' Day. ...
— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles

... Suicide Club? Come, come! this is a frolic for All Fools' Day. I can make allowances for gentlemen who get merry in their liquor; but let there be an end ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson



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