Whitsuntide
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Whitsuntide
First recorded in 1175–1225, Whitsuntide is from the Middle English word whitsone(n)tide. See Whitsun, tide 1
Example Sentences
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"I always had a new Whitsuntide bonnet and patent shoes and little white socks," she recalled in 2006.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
In the 1960s and '70s, a Ken Dodd Summer season in Blackpool would often begin at Whitsuntide and end at Christmas.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2018
According to Dolphin Morris Men, which researched the history of Gate to Southwell, it is a traditional Whitsuntide procession.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2014
The East German Finance Ministry announced that the marchers were eligible for special Whitsuntide death and accident insurance.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a child was born at Whitsuntide or Easter, Christmas or Epiphany, like Robinson Crusoe’s man Friday, or Thursday October Christian of the Pitcairn islanders, he received the name of the day.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
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