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Why is holiday called holiday?

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Why is holiday called holiday?

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  1. Corruption of Holy Day - a feast day in the old Roman Catholic church that people took as a day of rest from work.


  2. I was also led to believe that it was derived from "holy day", because in days goneby, the populous at large were only freed from work on Sundays and Holy Days

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