Bastille Day
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Bas·tille Day
(bă-stēl′)n.
July 14, observed in France in commemoration of the storming of the Paris Bastille by the citizens of Paris at the outset of the French Revolution (1789).
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Bastille Day
n
(in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille
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Bastille′ Day`
n.
July 14, a French national holiday commemorating the fall of the Bastille in 1789.
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Noun | 1. | Bastille Day - a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789 legal holiday, national holiday, public holiday - authorized by law and limiting work or official business July - the month following June and preceding August |
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