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Definition of Half-price
1. Adverb. For half the price. "She bought it half-price during the sale"
Definition of Half-price
1. Adverb. (''being sold'') for half of the normal price ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a product) for sale at half the normal price ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-price
Literary usage of Half-price
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"... them at HALF PRICE, Say >4 for the four Quarterly Reviews for the year 1803.
Such an opportunity as thin will not occur again, as we are now printing ..."
2. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap (1834)
"... of demanding half-price at the first sitting for a portrait—Anecdote related
by Doctor Waterhouse of Stuart and his travelling companions- Extract from ..."
3. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"STUART'S RULE OF THE PAYMENT OF HALF PRICE AT THE FIRST SITTING. Stuart thus
explains how he came to adopt a custom, which, when practicable, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1871)
"... v lib anil line half, price of the nt:\ne xij' ... ix pound wecht and half,
price of the stone xij'; ..."
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