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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(British) Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due..
1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)
If you would only allow us, poor chroniclers of progress, to invent a discovery now and then, we might give you a trimensual surprise, the effects of which would keep you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another.
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Quarter-day means (British) Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due..
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1908, It is late in March, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)
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