Twelfthtide

//ˈtwɛlfθtaɪd// name

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the season of Epiphany wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself. archaic, obsolete

    "Plough Monday, next after that Twelftide is past, / bids out with the plough, the woorst husband is last. / If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, / maides loseth their cock if no water be seene."

Synonyms

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epiphanyepiphanytwelfth daytwelfth daytwelvetidetwelvetide

Example

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"Plough Monday, next after that Twelftide is past, / bids out with the plough, the woorst husband is last. / If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, / maides loseth their cock if no water be seene."

Etymology

From twelfth + -tide.

Related phrases

twelfth caketwelfth daytwelfth night

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