'Black Monday' definitions:

Definition of 'Black Monday'

From: GCIDE
  • Black Monday \Black" Mon`day\
  • 1. Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in
  • 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. --Stow. [1913 Webster]
  • Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]