OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1352

weekend

/wiːˈkɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fin de semana • finde
The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in Western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
[…] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
“They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
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