Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intercalary day, especially the 29th of February in leap-year.
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Examples
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								You're watching our special leap-day coverage of the race to the White House, a chance to bring you even more from our reporters, from the voters and from the candidates themselves. 
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								Let's talk politics now, continuing our leap-day extra political coverage with CNN's Ali Velshi. 
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								If the quality of these concoctions is any indication of the sort of revels at which they were drunk, it's no wonder that leap-day partying fell out of favor. 
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								It's our special leap-day coverage of the race for the White House, a chance to bring you even more from our reporters, from the voters and from the candidates themselves. 
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								If the quality of these concoctions is any indication of the sort of revels at which they were drunk, it's no wonder that leap-day partying fell out of favor. 
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								We continue our leap-day extra political coverage with CNN's Ali Velshi. 
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								And that Newton week is not, I think, as convenient as a leap-day system. New Calendar? 2005 
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								And that Newton week is not, I think, as convenient as a leap-day system. Archive 2005-01-01 2005 
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								Also, on February 29, Ninetynights featured a special treat: the only R.E.M. show ever performed on a leap-day was put on Ninetynights with a video introduction from Mike Mills, shot in LA by Ethan. Murmurs.com 2009 
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								1700: Since yesterday was the quadrennial leap-day, it seems fitting to recall that on this day 308 years ago, Sweden introduced its own Swedish Calendar, a plan to come into compliance with the Gregorian Calendar by skipping all the leap days over a forty-year period. Archive 2008-03-01 2008 
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