Thursday 5 January 2017

Twelfthtide: Word of the day for January 6, 2017

Twelfthtide , proper n :
(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. In Western Christianity, today is Epiphany, which commemorates the visit of the Magi to the Christ child.

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