English Dictionary

Twelfthtide

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtwɛlfθtaɪd/

固有名詞

(archaic or obsolete) The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself.

日本語の意味

（古風または廃語）キリスト教におけるクリスマス季節の終わりを表す名称。具体的には、キリストの顕現祭（1月6日）を含む時期、またはその前日の晩（ツェルフ・ナイト）と見なされる期間、および顕現祭そのものを指す。

During Twelfthtide, the villagers held a candlelit procession to mark the close of the Christmas season.

公現節の季節には、村人たちはクリスマスの祝祭の終わりを告げるためにろうそくの行列を行った。

意味（1）

(archaic or obsolete) The season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself.

Plough Monday, next after that Twelftide is past, / bids out with the plough, the woorst husband is last. / If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, / maides loseth their cock if no water be seene.