training-day

The old-fashioned "training-day" was always a day of drunkenness and subsequent sickness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

His wife made great quantities of lemonade, “training-day” gingerbread, doughnuts and the best of tea and coffee.

The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01 Harper, Ida H 1899

His wife made great quantities of lemonade, "training-day" gingerbread, doughnuts and the best of tea and coffee.

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891

It was otherwise known as general training-day, and ten days or more previously, the men belonging to the various battalions were “warned” to appear at a certain place in the district.

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885

"Equal to Fourth of July and training-day put together," remarked Moses, snatching a handful of raisins out of the bowl Mary held in her lap.

Little Grandmother Sophie May 1869

Unless it was training-day, or Fourth of July, or the circus was coming, it was a little difficult to find anything big enough to fill our anticipations of the fun we would have in the day or the two or three days we had earned.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Unless it was training-day, or Fourth of July, or the circus was coming, it was a little difficult to find anything big enough to fill our anticipations of the fun we would have in the day or the two or three days we had earned.

Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It was otherwise known as general training-day, and ten days or more previously, the men belonging to the various battalions were "warned" to appear at a certain place in the district.

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863