playday
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
playday (plural playdays)
- A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
- July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
- To ease a poor lady,
And beg her a playday.
So may you be seen
No more in the spleen!
- To ease a poor lady,
- July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “playday”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)