Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The eve of the festival of the Epiphany. Many social rites and ceremonies have long been connected with Twelfth-night. See
bean-feast , 2, Twelfth-cake.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
Examples
“A twelfth-night long, on each and every day, one saw the winsome maid beside the knight, when she should go to court to meet her kin.”
“But the great event of the season to the upper tandem of Vellenaux, and its vicinity was the approaching twelfth-night Ball.”
“The presence of an enthusiast chills me with a twelfth-night cold, and I believe that constant association with a person of a flaccid and phlegmatic temperament would have turned me into an impassioned visionary.”
“All is over now; April was just a twelfth-night old when the school departed.”
“Staveley that he intended to go, and though she had pressed his further stay, remarking that none of the young people intended to move till after twelfth-night, nevertheless he persisted.”
“And now they look at the tickets they have drawn for their twelfth-night characters, and read them out.”
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Agapi Stassinopoulos: Tuning In To The Year 3005: An Exercise In Perspective
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Agapi Stassinopoulos: Tuning In To The Year 3005: An Exercise In Perspective
Lists
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twelfth
words and concepts reflective of their twelveness
twelfthtide, well-tempered, twelve noon, twelvemo, duodecimo, twelvescore, twelvepence, twelfth-second, twelfth-night, twelfth-tide, twelfthly, twelfth man and 49 more...
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Christmas
carol, yule, noel, nowel, yuletide, melampodium, toyon, wassail, pantomime, simnel, epiphany, luminaria and 37 more...
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