every-day

See also: every day and everyday

English

Adjective

every-day (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of everyday
   • 1858 October, Harry Hieover, “Breeding Versus Buying, and Vice Versa”, in The New Sporting Magazine, London, page 257:

     Now, an every-day horse I have ever found to be something like the usual thing understood by an every-day coat or hat—a somewhat inferior article. So it was with these every-day horses: with the harriers they were well enough; so is the every-day coat to walk about our own grounds in, but we want something more spicy for the public.

   • 1872, Ethel C. Gale, “Outline History of Costume”, in Hints on Dress; What to Wear, When to Wear It, and How to Buy It (Putnam’s Handy Book Series), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam & Sons, […], page 4:

     The drapery of the old Greek sculptors was founded on artistic principles and ideas—not on those of practical utility; while the every-day dress, beautiful and simple though it always remained, was “conformed to the protection and comfort of the body, and the convenience of the wearer.”

   • 1883 January, C. O. B., “The Evolution of a Thought”, in The Overland Monthly Devoted to the Development of the Country, volume I (second series), number 1, San Francisco, Calif.: Samuel Carson, […], page 110, column 1:

     The washing must be done quickly, for the skins of the jamckon are scarce, and her father is obliged to wear his every-day clothes on Sunday.