week-day

See also: weekday

English

Noun

week-day (plural week-days)

1. Archaic form of weekday.
   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 267:

     It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.

   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 269:

     Each lad had an income, now, that was simply prodigious—a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays.

   • 1922, May Sinclair [pseudonym; Mary Amelia St. Clair], “Maisie”, in Anne Severn and the Fieldings, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, section iii, page 213:

     He had to set up some sort of screen for his Sunday visits to the Manor Farm. Thus he made a habit of long walks after dark on week-days and of unpunctuality at meals.