Valentide
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editValentide (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The time of Saint Valentine's Day.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For on a day, when Cupid kept his court, / As he is wont at each Saint Valentide, / Vnto the which all louers doe resort, / That of their loues successe they there may make report.
- 1847, The Columbian Magazine, volumes 7-8, page 285:
- Seedlings of last Valentide, by Miss Isabel Jocelyn