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单词 quarter day
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quarter dayn.

Brit. /ˈkwɔːtə ˌdeɪ/, U.S. /ˈkwɔrdər ˌdeɪ/
Forms: see quarter n. and day n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: quarter n., day n.
Etymology: < quarter n. + day n. Compare quart day n. at quart n.2 Compounds 2.
Each of the four days fixed by custom as marking off the quarters of the year, on which some tenancies begin and end, the payment of rent and other quarterly charges fall due, and on which quarterly meetings were formerly often held.In England and Ireland the quarter days are traditionally Lady Day (March 25), Midsummer Day (June 24), Michaelmas (September 29), and Christmas (December 25). The name is also sometimes applied to the Scottish terms of Candlemas (February 2), Whit Sunday (May 15), Lammas (August 1), and Martinmas (November 11).
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Candlemas1014
May Day1267
All Souls' Dayc1300
midsummer evena1400
firstc1400
Beltane1424
midsummer eve1426
quarter day1435
Beltane1456
mid-Sundaya1475
madding-day1568
Lord Mayor's day1591
Barnaby bright1595
Lammas-eve1597
All Saints' Night1607
Handsel Monday1635
distaff's day1648
long Barnabya1657
St. Valentine's eve1671
leet-day1690
All Fools' Day1702
Boxing Day1743
April Fool's Day1748
Royal Oak Day1759
box day1765
Oak-apple Day1802
All Souls' Eve1805
mischief night1830
Shick-shack Day1847
chalk-back day1851
call night1864
Nut-Monday1867
Arbor Day1872
April Fool's1873
Labour Day1884
Martinmas Sunday1885
call day1886
Samhain1888
Juneteenth1890
Mother's Day1890
Father's Day1908
Thinking Day1927
Punkie night1931
Tweede Nuwejaar1947
1435 in J. F. South & D. Power Memorials Craft of Surg. (1886) App. 310 Of the Quarter daies..it is ordeined..that al the craft come togidere oonys a quarter of dutee.
a1483 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 315 Ther shall be iiij quarter dayys that euery Brother..shall assemble at oure comen hall.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E4 What is it quarter daie that you remoue, And carrie bag and baggage too? View more context for this quotation
a1612 J. Haryngton in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 88 All which sommes shal be duly paide each quarter-day.
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. xxxii. 52 A Gentleman had two Tenants, whereof one..repaired to his Land-lord on the Quarter-day.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 92 How will the Farmer be able to make up his Rent at Quarter Day?
1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 14 Oct. 3/2 Notice is hereby given to the Members of St. George's Society, that on Saturday the 23d Instant, being Quarter Day, will be a Meeting of the said Society.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 124 Rent..for the occupation of the land since the last quarter day.
1805 R. Southey Ballads & Metr. Tales in Poet. Wks. VI. 80 I was idle, and quarter-day came on, And I had not the rent in store.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xiii. 2 The twenty-fifth of March..one of those unpleasant epochs termed quarter-days.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlix. 165 Before the quarter-day had quite come something happened which made Tess think of far different matters.
1936 N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes xvii. 212 The purchaser would take it over on the June quarter day of next year.
1995 P. Pullman Northern Lights (1996) iii. 34 In every part of the kingdom there were dye-works and brick-kilns, forests and atomcraft-works that paid rent to Jordan, and every Quarter-Day the Bursar and his clerks would tot it all up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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