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† ˈTwelfthtide Obs.
Forms: 6 twelfe tyde, 6–7 twelftide, twelfetide (in 7 also with hyphen), 6–8 twelftyde, (7 twelvetide). (Twelfth-tide occurs app. only in modernized editions.)
[See tide n. 4 b, 6.]
The season including Twelfth-night and Twelfth-day; the season of Epiphany: formerly the concluding part of the Christmas holidays.
1530Palsgr. 283/2 Twelftyde, la typhayne. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. 159 That there be no mariages celebrate..from Aduent to Twelftide. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry ii. ii, As if he had come this Christmas..To see his friends, and returned after twelf-tide. 1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 48 A mask prepared for twelftyde. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2301/3 It will not be before Twelvetide.
attrib.1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 64 Like a right Twelfetide King. 1648Herrick New-yeares Gift to Sir S. Steward 17 Of twelf-tide cakes, of pease, and beanes, Wherewith ye make those merry sceanes, When as ye chuse your king and queen. |