court-day

Her temper and tact were put to the proof one court-day, when the judge brought with him the accustomed half score or more of lawyers, for whom not the slightest preparation had been made, the judge having quite forgotten to remind his wife that it was court-day, and she herself, strange to tell, having overlooked the fact.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

'Say?' said Caper, 'why, I'll go and ask her; this is not court-day.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various

It was in the Apollo room, too, that the official court-day odes of the Poets Laureate were rehearsed, which explains the point of the following lines:

Inns and Taverns of Old London

The same court, in the same room, with the same bar, and the same practitioners, but another judge, for there the Consistory judge could plead any court-day as an advocate.

XXVI. I Fall into Captivity 1917

The same court, in the same room, with the same bar, and the same practitioners, but another judge, for there the Consistory judge could plead any court-day as an advocate.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

The town awoke; people hailed each other cheerfully in the streets, and joy-bells rang from the big church tower for the first court-day of the new

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

Meanwhile, [360] Alaeddin's mother, albeit she was grown exceeding weary and dejected, yet made light of all weariness, for her son's sake, and continued, as of her wont, to go every court-day and stand in the Divan before the Sultan.

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

It was court-day as well as a political occasion; and the farmers had assembled from many miles around.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

Even though Virginia had not the town-meeting, it had its familiar court-day, which was a holiday for all the country-side, especially in the fall and spring.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

At every court-day, the country was brought together; visits were courteously exchanged between neighbors; and the owner was proud of his fine-blooded horse, his trotting-mares, or his six well-conditioned grays, which thunder along with the old family chariot.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856