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falltide en · NOUN

Etymology

From fall + -tide.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, poetic, rare, uncountable) Falltime (the season between summer and winter); autumntide.
   • Automobile touring is in season in the Falltide and we speed along the roads in a jolly mood. 1921, New York Star, volume 27, page 11:
   • "Long holidays. Two months each twice a year, at Springtide and Falltide." 2021, Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer:
   • It is no latter-day degeneracy of individuals who cannot contact the world immediately; no nervous falling-off of an over-ripe society to whom luxuries are become organically necessary, that brings back the hunger each falltide. 1921, Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, The Dial, volume 71, page 488:
   • The action of the Falltide drama starts characteristically in a period of the protagonist's career when for a moment life seems to have reversed a downward trend and to be moving upward. 1957, Samuel Selden, Man in his Theatre, page 82:

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