half-holiday

== English == === Noun === half-holiday (plural half-holidays) Half of a working or school day set aside for recreation on a special occasion. 1784, obituary of Daniel Wray in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 54, Part 1, p. 72,[1] His memory is still reflected on with a degree of pleasure by some […] who can revive the long-buried ideas of what passed at that school about the year 1716 or 17; when Sir Daniel was always ready, if any body was wanted, to beg a half-holiday on Tuesday afternoons. (historical) A religious festival lasting for half a day. === See also === semiholiday