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high day

American  

noun

  1. a holy or festal day.

  2. heyday.


high day British  

noun

  1. a day of celebration; festival (esp in the phrase high days and holidays )

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of high day

1150–1200; Middle English heye dai feast day

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The two held hands and stepped high, day after day, night after night.

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It was high day, and the people were gathering for morning service when Susannah rode her jaded horse through the street of the lower village and up the hill of the Bluff.

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