playday
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of playday
Example Sentences
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We came to recognize Jim's symptoms only too well, and knew, when we saw them, that he would soon have to have another playday.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
With a frown John Denby took the proffered bit of paper upon which had been scrawled:— I hope you'll enjoy your playday as much as I shall mine.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
If it's just a playday, why didn't he give it to you ter take it tergether, then?
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
Now that school had begun, a whole playday meant more than it did in vacation time, when all days were playdays.
From Marjorie's Busy Days by Carolyn Wells
Then, like the weakling that he had become, he stole away for another playday; and again grandmother, with Theodora's and Miss Emmons's connivance, hid the book, this time somewhere in the wagon-house cellar.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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