legal holiday
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of legal holiday
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The initial version of HB 1516 proposed by Thai designated the Saturday before the start of each Lunar New Year as a legal holiday.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
President Ronald Regan signed Dr. King’s birthday into federal law in 1983, but by 1990, Montana, New Hampshire and Arizona still had not made the day a legal holiday.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022
The date became a legal holiday in 1879, and was later included in the Monday Holiday Law — which created the three-day weekend holiday — in 1968.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Although King was assassinated in 1968, legislation designating the third Monday in January—near his Jan. 15 birthday—as a legal holiday to honor him did not pass until 1983.
From Time ● Jan. 13, 2017
In these great facts of national importance there are found good reasons for the annual observance of Emancipation day, as a legal holiday, as well as the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott
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