quarter-days
quarter-days is the plural of quarter-day.
Meaning of quarter-day
Noun
quarter-day (plural quarter-days)
- Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.
- 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.1851, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 141
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- What is quarter-days the plural of?
- Quarter-days is the plural of quarter-day.
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