semiholiday

English

Etymology

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.

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