post day

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post day (plural post days)

  1. (obsolete) The day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered. [17th–19th c.]
    • 1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 164:
      The above I writ this morning, before I recollected this was not Post Day, – and all is altered here since […].
    • 1864, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:
      ‘But it isn't post-day,’ said Kate;—for the post illuminated Vavasor but three days a week.