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1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe iv. sig. F4 This is he that stole his knighthood o' the grand day, for foure pound.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix Ep. Ded. sig. ★^v On Lords-dayes and other solemne Holy-dayes, on which these Grand-dayes ever fall.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gawdy or Grand days. In the Inns of Court there are four of these in the year, that is, one in every Term.

1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) (at cited word) Grand Days are those which are solemnly kept in every Term in the Inns of Court and Chancery, viz. In Easter Term, Ascention Day; in Trin. Term, St. John Baptist; in Michaelmas Term, All Saints; in Hillary Term, the Feast of the Purification of the B. Virgin. And these are no days in Court.

1855 R. Ford Handbk. Travellers in Spain (ed. 3) II. i. i. 61 The church ceremonials, on grand days, although now much shorn of their splendour, should always be visited.

1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 339/1 A buffet, on which the imperial plate is displayed on grand days during the visits of the Tsar.

1966 Huntington Libr. Q. May in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1967) 72 767/1 John Donne's sermons on the ‘Grand Days’.

2000 D. Lemmings Professors of Law viii. 296 Some lesser Grand Days were still held after 1700, but much of the solemnity which attached to the office of reader was shed with the end of substantive readings.

2010 Daily News (Colombo, Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 10 Sept. In the midst of rejoicing and thanksgiving on this grand day of Eid.