"half-holiday" meaning in English

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          "text": "1784, obituary of Daniel Wray in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 54, Part 1, p. 72,\nHis memory is still reflected on with a degree of pleasure by some […] who can revive the long-buried ideas of what passed at that school about the year 1716 or 17; when Sir Daniel was always ready, if any body was wanted, to beg a half-holiday on Tuesday afternoons."
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          "ref": "1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, page 142:",
          "text": "Mr. Pecksniff and Mr. Jinkins came home to dinner, arm-in-arm; for the latter gentleman had made half-holiday, on purpose; thus gaining an immense advantage over the youngest gentleman and the rest, whose time, as it perversely chanced, was all bespoke, until the evening.",
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          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 98:",
          "text": "Bradly was late getting into town—he had forgotten that Saturday was a half-holiday. But he was in time to lay in stores at Cooley’s, and call at the butcher’s and greengrocer’s while the parcels were being made up.",
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          "ref": "1971, Graham Greene, chapter 2, in A Sort of Life, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 71:",
          "text": "A rumor would start that an extra half-holiday was going to be given (which happened fairly frequently during the war, whenever an old boy had been decorated with a D.S.O. or an M.C. A V.C. ranked as a whole holiday, but this only happened twice).",
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          "ref": "1636, Peter Heylyn, The History of the Sabbath, London: Henry Seile, Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 83:",
          "text": "For they had […] some appointed times, appropriated to the worship of their severall gods, as before was shewed: their holydayes, & half-holydayes, according to that estimation which their gods had gotten in the World.",
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          "ref": "1792, Alexander Adam, Roman Antiquities, Edinburgh: W. Creech, pages 333–334:",
          "text": "But this [Carmentalia] was an half holiday, (intercisus); for after mid day it was dies profestus, a common work day.",
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        "A religious festival lasting for half a day."
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        "(historical) A religious festival lasting for half a day."
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