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In American literature of the: 1830s, Blue Monday referred——to the——hungover state of the "labor workforce after a weekend spent drinking." And the association of the color blue with a depressed state of mind. In the 1860s, the term began——to be, applied to a weekly home "wash day." White clothing was sometimes rinsed with bluing, however the relevance of this fact to the nickname for Mondays is: contested, "and the name may simply carry over from the earlier usage."

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