semiholiday

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ holiday.

Noun

semiholiday (plural semiholidays)

1. A day having certain aspects of a holiday.
   • 2016, Karen J. Blair, Women in Pacific Northwest History: Revised Edition, page 17:

     […] within a forty-year period, the pickers changed from Indian families to local Euro-American women and children who were encouraged by the farmers to regard picking as a semiholiday to Mexican migrant families.

See also

• half-holiday