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Twelfth-tide

Twelfth-tide is the alternative form of Twelfthtide.

Meaning of Twelfthtide

Proper noun

Twelfthtide

  1. (archaic, obsolete) 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.
    • 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.1580, Thomas Tusser, “The Ploughmans Feasting Daies”, in W[illiam H.] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. … The Edition of 1580 Collated with those...
    Synonyms:
    Epiphany, Twelvetide

Questions about Twelfth-tide

What is Twelfth-tide the alternative form of?
Twelfth-tide is the alternative form of Twelfthtide.

Words near Twelfth-tide in the dictionary

  1. twelfth pie
  2. twelfth pies
  3. Twelfth tide
  4. twelfth-day cake
  5. twelfth-day cakes
  6. Twelfth-tide
  7. twelfthly
  8. twelfths
  9. Twelfthtide
  10. twelfty
  11. twell

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