falltide
nounEtymology From fall + -tide.
- 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:
- 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:
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- 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:
- "Long holidays. Two months each twice a year, at Springtide and Falltide."2021, Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer: