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Sabba-day Now rare. Also Sabber-day, etc. U.S. colloq. var. of Sabbath-day. Also Comb., as Sabba-day house, a house used for rest in the interval between church services; = noon-house s.v. noon n. 6 b.
c1772T. Burbank in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1920) LVI. 292 Thare was in the yeare 1738 a great athcak one sabbady. 1858Harper's Mag. Nov. 856/2 A thousand terrible thoughts rushed into her mind;..above all, the loss of her ‘Sabber-day’ dinner. 1868H. W. Beecher Norwood 47 Duties never conflict, you said, only Sabby-day morning last. 1876J. E. Todd John Todd 40 Near by were a number of rough, stone-built ‘Sabba’-day houses, where they flocked at noon, for warmth in winter (they had chimneys), and coolness in summer. 1891[see noon-house s.v. noon n. 6 b]. 1935J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 5, I knew that, when I next dressed, it would be in the prim and stiff and spotless garments befitting what Grandmother often said her mother used to call ‘Sabba' Day’. |