day name
(formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a Black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's gender and the day of the week on which they were born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba ), Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba ), Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba ), Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba ), Thursday (Quao and Abba ), Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi ), and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba ).
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How to use day name in a sentence
Suppose you climb down out of the high-browed altitudes and give it a plain, every-day name?
The City of Numbered Days | Francis LyndeWhoever is right, it is certain that the year can begin with its first day-name only once every four years.
The American Egypt | Channing ArnoldIt is a beautiful name with a beautiful meaning, if it werent that it is her every-day name.
Winona of the Camp Fire | Margaret WiddemerWill you think me rude if I ask you the every-day name of your King Cophetua?
Molly Bawn | Margaret Wolfe HamiltonFinally, in any given year any particular day-name occupied the same relative position throughout the divisions of that year.
An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs | Sylvanus Griswold Morley
British Dictionary definitions for day name
Western African a name indicating a person's day of birth
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