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Wintertide

//ˈwɪntə(ɹ)taɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    wintertime archaic, literary

    "Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide."

Etymology

From Middle English wintertid, wyntertyde, from Old English winter + tid (“time”). By surface analysis, winter + -tide. Cognate to Dutch wintertijd (“winter time”).

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