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Wednesnight

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Wednesnight (plural Wednesnights)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Wednesday evening or night
    • 1795, The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, volumes 96–97 (English literature), nZ5FAQAAMAAJ:
      On Wednesnight, a little before eleven o'clock, a shock of an earthquake was very sensibly felt by most of the inhabitants of this town, and in all the adjoining counties, and occasioned considerable alarm.
    • 1916, Drug & Chemical Markets, volume 3 (Drugs), qn9Hda0UlGcC, page 7:
      Scording to dispatches from Pittsburgh $100,000 worth opium and other drugs was seized there on Wednesnight.
    • 1917, Musical America, volume 26 (Music), Gk80AQAAMAAJ, page 1:
      Henry K. Hadley also attend the festival in the capacity of luctor, but of his work we shall speak T. aint-Saëns's “Samson and Delilah” the work selected for the open concert, which transpired on Wednesnight.
    • 2014, Elizabeth Fama, Plus One (Young Adult Fiction), →ISBN, page 75:
      On Wednesnight he had written, “Gah! So many lighthouses in the world!” and he had drawn a picture of himself hanging by the neck, with x's in place of his eyes.
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