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play-day|ˈpleɪdeɪ|
1. a. A day given up to play; a day exempted from work; esp. a school holiday.
1601Holland Pliny I. 555 Worse than either of these is he, who doth that vpon work days which should haue bin don on play-daies or idle holidaies. 1655in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 334 He wrote of the sending of Maynard, Windham and Twisden to the Towre; he said it was a strange playdaye. a1716South Serm. (1724) VI. x. 343 The Soul's Play-day is always the Devil's working Day, and the idler the Man, still the busier the Tempter. 1768Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 285 We have no play-days (the school being taught every day in the year but Sundays). 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 172 In 1763 the play-days at the grammar school of Kinghorn were fixed as the afternoons of every Wednesday and Saturday.
attrib.1747W. Dunkin in Francis Horace, Ep. ii. ii. 299 Or, wanting Prudence, like a Play-day Boy Blindly rush on, to catch the flying Joy.
b. A week-day on which miners or others do not work: cf. play n. 13, v. 15.
1892Daily News 12 Apr. 6/4 With reference to the weekly ‘playday’ being fixed for Saturday the agent advised the men to accept this,..it was decided unanimously to take a ballot whether the playday shall be Monday, Thursday, or Saturday. 1901Daily Mail 7 Nov. 3/4 The miners obeyed their leaders as implicitly as they did on..the three previous ‘play-days’.
2. Theatr. A day on which a play is performed.
1761in G. C. D. Odell Annals of N.Y. Stage (1927) I. iv. 83 Those ladies who would have places kept in the boxes will please to send a sensible servant to the theatre at three o'clock on every play-day. 1888G. O. Seilhamer Hist. Amer. Theatre I. xi. 111 Mr. Allyn's benefit took place on Saturday, instead of the regular play-day. |