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单词 twelfthtide
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Twelfthtiden.

Forms: 1500s twelfe tyde, 1500s–1600s twelftide, twelfetide (in 1600s also with hyphen), 1500s–1700s twelftyde, (1600s twelvetide). (Twelfth-tide occurs apparently only in modernized editions.)
Etymology: See tide n. 4b, 6
Obsolete.
The season including Twelfth-night and Twelfth-day; the season of Epiphany: formerly the concluding part of the Christmas holidays.
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Twelfthtide1530
twelve-tide1557
the twelve days1693
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 283/2 Twelftyde, la typhayne.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xix. f. 159 That there be no mariages celebrate..from Aduent to Twelftide.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry ii. sig. E As if he had come this Christmas..To see his friends, and return'd after Twelfetyde.
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 48 A Mask prepared for Twelftyde.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2301/3 It will not be before Twelvetide.
attributive.1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 64 Like a right Twelfetide King.1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Lv Of Twelf-tide Cakes, of Pease, and Beanes Wherewith ye make those merry Sceanes, When as ye chuse your King and Queen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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