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poppy day

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1921, OED Evaluation: N/A

a day on which the dead of the First World War (1914–18), and later also of other conflicts, are commemorated by the wearing of an artificial poppy

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Interviewer: Were you involved in Poppy-Day then? Or was that- was that a different- Speaker: Ah, okay Poppy-Day ah I was involved in a couple of things. I was involved with the house-to-house. Where you go to door-to-door and ah for donations towards the poppy.
Remembrance Day (11 November)