evetide

noun

evetide

noun

Etymology A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve + tide.

1

Archaic, Poetic evening

  • The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm, III

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