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half-holiday
[haf-hol-i-dey, hahf-]
noun
a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
half holiday
noun
a day of which either the morning or the afternoon is a holiday
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of half-holiday1
Example Sentences
“Then, as in general you stick to your work as well as most men,” said Joe, “let it be a half-holiday for all.”
Friday: Early hockey on a half-holiday Friday afternoon?
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.
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.
He met his Housemaster but seldom, for he was naturally excluded from such unofficial hospitalities as Sunday breakfasts and half-holiday teas.
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