Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The eve of the festival of the Epiphany.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.
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Examples
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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.
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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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.
A Hero of Our Time 2003
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But the great event of the season to the upper tandem of Vellenaux, and its vicinity was the approaching twelfth-night Ball.
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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.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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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.
A Hero of Our Time 1916
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All is over now; April was just a twelfth-night old when the school departed.
Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth John Huntley Skrine 1885
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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.
Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848
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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.
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov 1827
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And now they look at the tickets they have drawn for their twelfth-night characters, and read them out.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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