Glorious Fourth, the

The Fourth of July.

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1827. We did not celebrate the “glorious Fourth” here.—Longfellow, ‘Life’ (1891), i. 121. (N.E.D.)

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1862.

	I say, ole boy, it ain’t the Glorious Fourth:
	You ’d oughto larned ’fore this wut talk wuz worth.
	Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 2.

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