quarter day

See also: quarter-day

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quarter day (plural quarter days)

  1. 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. [from 15th c.]
    • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
      [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.
    • 1958 February, Charles E. Lee, “The Dundee & Arbroath Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 123:
      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.

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