playday
English
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Noun
playday (plural playdays)
- A day devoted to play or fun.
- July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
- To ease a poor lady,
And beg her a playday.
So may you be seen
No more in the spleen!
- To ease a poor lady,
- July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
References
- “playday”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.