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Juneteenth
June·teenth [ jn tnth ]


noun 
Definition:
 
U.S. holiday: a holiday commemorating the day on which slaves in Texas learned of the Emancipation Proclamation, which granted them freedom.June 19.
[Blend of June + nineteenth]
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