bank holiday

noun

1. a weekday on which banks are closed by law; legal holiday.
2. British. a secular day on which banks are closed, obligations then falling due being performable on the following secular day.

bank holiday

noun

1. (in Britain) any of several weekdays on which banks are closed by law and which are observed as national holidays

Word History and Origins

Origin of bank holiday¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

And so he did, proclaiming a four-day bank holiday on March 7.

From The Daily Beast

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 7, FDR proclaimed a four day bank holiday.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, it made me understand for the first time that even a Bank Holiday need not be a day of wrath and mourning.

From Project Gutenberg

The contractors were under time-penalties to be ready for the formal opening on the forthcoming August Bank Holiday.

From Project Gutenberg

Sunday is with them only a regularly recurring Bank Holiday.

From Project Gutenberg

Bank Holiday courtship (if the inappropriate word can be pardoned) seems to be done, in real life, entirely by banter.

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It makes me sick to think of having to trust to an accident like that, like a lubberly cockney out for a boozy Bank Holiday sail.

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