DCHP-3

old home week

Informal
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a time of festivity when former residents of a community or members of a family return for the celebrations.

Quotations

1938
We are allowed off the boat now, and it is like old home week, for it seems as if half the population of Montana is here.
1959
This will be "old home week" for hundreds of former residents of this busy commercial center . . . as townspeople celebrate the town's 100th birthday.