Twelfthtide
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Twelfthtide
- /ˈtwɛlfθtaɪd/ US, UK
Where it comes from
From twelfth + -tide.
proper noun Twelfth tide · Twelfth-tide
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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.
Similar: Epiphany, Twelvetide
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