Definition of "day of rest" [day of rest]

• A day set aside for rest (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "THE next day was a day of rest and audience: the following was devoted to feasting, and the evening concluded in celebrating the nuptials of the young Mustee with a Creek girl of Mucclasse, daughter of the chief and sister to our trader's wife."
• "O day of rest and gladness, [3959] t1. t15.h43-p0.6"
• "They had stayed for their day of rest in a rubber-smoking shed: she had developed fever during the day's march and one of the two Japanese guards they had at that time had carried her for much of the day."