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Definition of Twelfth day
1. Noun. Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus.
Generic synonyms: Christian Holy Day
Group relationships: Jan, January
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twelfth Day
Literary usage of Twelfth day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"... doubtless indicates the occasion for which it was written, or when it was
first performed.2 Twelfth Night is the eve of twelfth day, or Twelfth-tide, ..."
2. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"163, seems to account in a satisfactory manner for the name of twelfth day. "
In the days of King Alfred a law was made with relation to holidays, ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"Last twelfth day, a mad merry company being mett together to chuse King and Queen,
the Cake being no sooner cutt, but Robbin Good-fellow came amongst them, ..."
4. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"IN its character as a popular festival, twelfth day stands only inferior to ...
According to twelfth day law, each party is to support his character till ..."
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