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Twelfth Day

American  

noun

  1. the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.


Twelfth Day British  

noun

    1. Jan 6, the twelfth day after Christmas and the feast of the Epiphany, formerly observed as the final day of the Christmas celebrations

    2. ( as modifier )

      Twelfth-Day celebrations

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Twelfth Day

before 900; Middle English; Old English

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"On the Twelfth Day of Christmas" my true love gave to me a new TV movie starring Robin Dunne and Brooke Nevin.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2015

A pleasant, 22-minute short, the Twelfth Day will get a nationwide network audience on New Year's Day as a color Spectacular over NBCTV.

From Time Magazine Archive

And on the Twelfth Day the Knights and Barons came again, but none could draw it out but Arthur.

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

Throughout England, particularly in those rural districts where the study of physics is yet in its infancy, great importance is attached to the weather on Twelfth Day.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various

Isoult reached home on the sixteenth of December; and on Twelfth Day, 1550, John returned from Cornwall.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

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