Saturday-to-Monday

Sometimes lasting a week, but usually held from Saturday to Monday (hence the name “Saturday-to-Monday” as the phrase “week-end” was considered a vulgar Americanism), each day was packed with activities.

The Country House Party | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Since they changed clothing five to six times a day, with even more if one was on vacation or at a Saturday-to-Monday, it was imperative that underclothing was both attractive and sturdy.

Edwardians Unbuttoned | Edwardian Promenade 2008

A typical Saturday-to-Monday would require at least half a dozen changes of clothes: tweeds for shooting, habits for hunting, tea gowns for lounging, day dresses for day, evening gowns for supper, walking dress for promenading, and the requisite “tailor-made,” a suit of varying fabrics – depending on the occasion –, worn with shirtwaist, designed by the House of Redfern.

Introduction: Edwardian Women’s Fashions | Edwardian Promenade 2008

A halt was made after some ten miles, at Florida, rather a pleasant sort of Saturday-to-Monday resort of

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Finally and, as it were, to cement my wife's old and my new friendship with the Arthur Russells, I bought a piece of land on which to build a Saturday-to-Monday cottage, which, though I did not fully realise it at the moment, was close to the Arthur Russells 'Surrey house, The Ridgeway.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

Saturday-to-Monday visit in what foreign country it is not necessary to state.

The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

A local beauty is always a useful addition to a Saturday-to-Monday house-party, and the beautiful Irene was served up as a perennial novelty to the jaded guests of the summer colony.

The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

The lady beamed upon me, for all the world as if she was an angel spending a Saturday-to-Monday here below; and I dressed her hair for her just as if I didn't want to tear it out by the roots.

The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894

Finally and, as it were, to cement my wife's old and my new friendship with the Arthur Russells, I bought a piece of land on which to build a Saturday-to-Monday cottage, which, though I did not fully realise it at the moment, was close to the

The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

_Oceanic_ on the ninth of July, and he accepted a Saturday-to-Monday invitation to Newport for the twelfth of July.

The Great God Success David Graham Phillips 1889