falltide
Noun
Falltime (the season between summer and winter); autumntide.
Usage- Archaic
- Countable
- Poetic
- Rare
- Uncountable
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More examples (1)
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.
Automobile touring is in season in the Falltide and we speed along the roads in a jolly mood.
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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.
"Long holidays. Two months each twice a year, at Springtide and Falltide."
Word forms
falltidesfall-tidefall tide