Quarter-day
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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