Quarter-day

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due. British

    "If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another."

Example

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"If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another."

Etymology

From quarter + day.

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