falltide

English

Alternative forms

  • fall-tide, fall tide

Etymology

From fall +‎ -tide.

Noun

falltide (countable and uncountable, plural falltides)

  1. (rare, archaic or poetic) Falltime (the season between summer and winter); autumntide.
    • 1921, Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, The Dial, volume 71, page 488:
      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, New York Star, volume 27, page 11:
      Automobile touring is in season in the Falltide and we speed along the roads in a jolly mood.
    • 1957, Samuel Selden, Man in his Theatre, page 82:
      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.
    • 2021, Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer:
      "Long holidays. Two months each twice a year, at Springtide and Falltide."
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