Do you have any plans for the 'holiday weekend'? [=a weekend that is preceded or followed by a holiday]
She spent two weeks 'on holiday' [=('US') 'on vacation'] in Italy.
The stock market is closed tomorrow because it's a 'holiday'.
(..) You see a film times. You've nothing else to do. You talk to Garbo and Tyrone Power like a loonybird. You work like a burro. Even holidays-- Easter, Christmas. You only get Good Friday off. And if they hadn't stuck Christ on a cross... we'd even work then. (..)1988 Cinema Paradiso