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mark with a white stone en · VERB
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(transitive) To mark as particularly fortunate.
If we ever do reap any harvest from our little experiment, it will be a day to be marked with a white stone.
1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties:Sunday — yesterday — was a day to be marked with a white stone […]
1851, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), Chapter 25, quoting a letter written by Charlotte Bronte dated June 2, 1851
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