Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Great Britain, a secular day on which the law exempts the parties to negotiable paper from the obligation of presentment, payment, etc., and consequently allows banks to be closed.
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Examples
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More than likely, seeing it was the bank-holiday weekend.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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Genzyme on a Monday, when London was shut down for the long August bank-holiday weekend.
Overheard 2010
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Some of them have come to dread the bank-holiday weekend so much that they leave London in order to avoid it.
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Besides, I longed for the weekend to arrive and with it the bank-holiday play recital.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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Besides, I longed for the weekend to arrive and with it the bank-holiday play recital.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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They carried themselves like weather presenters preparing to lower expectations for the bank-holiday weekend.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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They carried themselves like weather presenters preparing to lower expectations for the bank-holiday weekend.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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Alfred the footman had told me there was to be a family recital on the bank-holiday weekend.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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They carried themselves like weather presenters preparing to lower expectations for the bank-holiday weekend.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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Alfred the footman had told me there was to be a family recital on the bank-holiday weekend.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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