Definition of "holyday"

Having obtained the loan of a horse one holyday, he rode into a "faire forest," where, overcome by the heat, he lay down under the shade of a tree and meditated on his wretched state.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 55

[…] they were soon on the beautiful common leading to Roehampton, where villas, which seem, like Beatrice's idea of King Pedro for a husband, made only for holydays […]

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 261–262