Crossword clues for holyday
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holyday \Ho"ly*day`\, n.
A religious festival.
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A secular festival; a holiday.
Note: Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense. The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.
Wiktionary
n. (obsolete form of holiday English)
Wikipedia
Holyday is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Barten Holyday (1593–1661), English clergyman, writer and poet
- Doug Holyday (born 1942), Canadian politician
- Stephen Holyday (born 1976), Canadian politician
Holyday, later also known as The Picnic, is an oil painting by French painter James Tissot (1836–1902), painted in 1876. Tissot moved to England in the year 1871, when he was thirty five years old and settled there. Before moving to London, Tissot was a successful painter of Paris society.
It is in size. The painting shows a group of elegantly dressed men and women during a picnic at the pond in the painter's garden. The painting is characterized by the attention to detail and vivid colours. Holyday is held in London's Tate Gallery.
Usage examples of "holyday".
One of the holydays of her religion had gone by uncelebrated, the turmoil of the weekend having driven it from her mind.
Celtic holydays, and Gossamer Axe played that evening to a Saturday-night crowd eager to listen and to dance.
And many a hymne for your holydays, That highte ballads, roundels, virelays.
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of after life, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school, and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed--because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of that canonized epoch and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden sword pageants and its fishing holydays.