quarter day
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Noun
quarter day (plural quarter days)
- 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 […], volumes (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.
Usage notes
- in England and Ireland: Lady Day (25 March), Midsummer Day (24 June), Michaelmas (29 September), Christmas Day (25 December).
- in Scotland: Candlemas (2 February), Whitsun (15 May), Lammas (1 August), Martinmas (11 November).
- Elsewhere, where the term "quarter day" is not used, January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st each mark the start of a quarter, especially a fiscal quarter.
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Translations
each of the four days starting a new quarter year
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