vespertide

noun

vespertide

noun

Etymology From vesper + -tide.

1

Archaic, Poetic the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed

And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone1825, The Literary Gazette, volume 9, page 356:
And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower1860, Jane Crewdson, “The Hermit of Livry”, in Lays of the Reformation, and Other Lyrics, Scriptural and Miscellaneous, page 101:

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At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.1895, “John Zizka”, in Macmillan’s Magazine, volume 72, page 351:

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