Meanings
nounpost day (plural post days)
plural post days
- obsoleteThe day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered.First known use 17th–19th c.
‘But it isn't post-day,’ said Kate;—for the post illuminated Vavasor but three days a week.
1864, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?1 more example
The above I writ this morning, before I recollected this was not Post Day, – and all is altered here since […].
1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 164
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