highday
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English heh dæi, from Old English hēah dæġ, equivalent to high + day. Compare Dutch hoog dag, German hoher Tag.
Noun
[edit]highday (plural highdays)
- A feast day, holiday, or festival; a time of pleasure.
- 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XXI. The Castle of Vlaye”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
- Here a man cleaned a horse or his harness, there a group chatted on the curb of the well; here a white-capped cook showed himself, and there, beside the entrance, a couple teased the brown bear that inhabited the stone kennel, and on high days made sport for the Captain of Vlaye's dogs.
- A time or period of full activity or strength; heyday.