Twelfth Day
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Twelfth Day
before 900; Middle English; Old English
Example Sentences
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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
Between Christmas and Twelfth Day mummers are in season.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
Twelfth Day: twelve days after Christmas, formerly an occasion of great festivities, which have now nearly died out.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
Perhaps the relics of Dr Thorpe’s Lutheranism were to blame for his persistent determination to have Twelfth Day kept with all the honours.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
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