half-holiday

Definitions

1. 1

   Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion.

   • Bradly was late getting into town—he had forgotten that Saturday was a half-holiday. But he was in time to lay in stores at Cooley’s, and call at the butcher’s and greengrocer’s while the parcels were being made up.
2. 2

   A religious festival lasting for half a day.

   • For they had […] some appointed times, appropriated to the worship of their severall gods, as before was shewed: their holydayes, & half-holydayes, according to that estimation which their gods had gotten in the World.
   • But this [Carmentalia] was an half holiday, (intercisus); for after mid day it was dies profestus, a common work day.

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