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Bank holiday   /bæŋk hˈɑlədˌeɪ/   Listen
Bank holiday

noun
1.
Any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain.





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"Bank holiday" Quotes from Famous Books



... loss good to him in legitimate ways. Also the fellow belonged to leagues and armies and 'things,' quixotic some of them, that tried to lift humanity. That is, he gave of his spare time, as also of his spare money, to help. His Saturday evenings, sometimes a whole bank holiday, he devoted to the welfare of others, even though the ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood
... spend our own, or secure some other body's, money, a message of beauty, distinction and serene confidence in its own truth, has been overlooked by this distracted world. There is little wonder. As well might a blackbird flute on Margate Sands on a Bank Holiday as this Quaker message, "To all men," breathe love and goodwill among them just now. The effect has been much the same: to those who heeded it matter for tears that such heavenly balm should be within our hearing but out of our grasp; to ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett


Words linked to "Bank holiday" :   public holiday, legal holiday, national holiday


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