Meanings
plural quarter days · alternative quarter-day
- Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, formerly established as a time for rents and other payments to be due, tenancies to begin and end, and various meetings and assemblies to be held.First known use 15th c.
[T]he money was deposited in the hands of the mortgager, who, in the hearing of the lender, laid strong injunctions on his steward to pay the interest punctually at quarter-day.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC1 more example
The effect was that the line from Trades Lane to Carolina Port became part of the joint railway, as from Whitsunday, 1904. This date, of course, was the Scottish quarter day (May 15) and not the movable ecclesiastica festival.
1958 February 28, Charles E. Lee, “The Dundee & Arbroath Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 123
Translations
Korean 사시가절
- 사시가절 (sasigajeol)each of the four days starting a new quarter year
Polish dzień kwartalny, suchy dzień
- dzień kwartalnyeach of the four days starting a new quarter year
- suchy dzieńeach of the four days starting a new quarter year
Russian квартальный день
- квартальный день (kvartalʹnyj denʹ)each of the four days starting a new quarter year
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