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Working days; when, in Rome, the lawʹ-courts were open. Holy days (dies non), when the law-courts were not open, were, by the Romans, called ne-fasti.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.