"post day" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: post days [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} post day (plural post days)
  1. (obsolete) The day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-post_day-en-noun-NiaLwOgG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 164:",
          "text": "The above I writ this morning, before I recollected this was not Post Day, – and all is altered here since […].",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:",
          "text": "‘But it isn't post-day,’ said Kate;—for the post illuminated Vavasor but three days a week.",
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        "The day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered."
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        "(obsolete) The day on which the post is to be collected, or delivered."
      ],
      "tags": [
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