half-holiday
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of half-holiday
First recorded in 1545–55
Example Sentences
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Friday: Early hockey on a half-holiday Friday afternoon?
From Washington Post
It's our half-holiday, and if Cara will help me on Tuesday evening I can get my lessons done, so that I needn't do any on Wednesday.
From Project Gutenberg
They obtained the Saturday half-holiday, and also release from work on the vigils of all feast days, and there were nearly forty of these in the year.
From Project Gutenberg
He met his Housemaster but seldom, for he was naturally excluded from such unofficial hospitalities as Sunday breakfasts and half-holiday teas.
From Project Gutenberg
“And still,” continued the former, “we pay but a fraction of wage more than other people, and then, of course, there is the extra weekly half-holiday.”
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