Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, the day that begins each quarter of the year.
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- noun UK Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was rather musical, and on some remote quarter-day had bought an old trombone; but a bit of it was lost, and it made the most extraordinary sounds when he sometimes tried to play it of an evening.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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As quarter-day came near he could see that her pretty face was clouded by anxiety, and he could guess when Caroline had sat up late at work; but above all, he noted how the gloomy thoughts that dimmed the cheerful and delicate features of her young face gradually vanished by degrees as their acquaintance ripened.
A Second Home 2007
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The king went on towards the office in a melancholy mood; for quarter-day was such a long way off, and several of the dear children were growing out of their clothes.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone, that had been dried and rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it one little kiss, and wished it was quarter-day.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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The king went on towards the office in a melancholy mood; for quarter-day was such a long way off, and several of the dear children were growing out of their clothes.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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As quarter-day came near he could see that her pretty face was clouded by anxiety, and he could guess when Caroline had sat up late at work; but above all, he noted how the gloomy thoughts that dimmed the cheerful and delicate features of her young face gradually vanished by degrees as their acquaintance ripened.
A Second Home 2007
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So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone, that had been dried and rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it one little kiss, and wished it was quarter-day.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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The tradesman never lived who could say that he was not paid on the quarter-day.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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But is his “windspeed” the storm max windspeed or the average of each quarter-day, or just what?
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In my first attempts to replicate this figure, in making an integral, I applied a factor of 1/4 for quarter-day periods.
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