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nounValentide (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe time of Saint Valentine's Day.
Seedlings of last Valentide, by Miss Isabel Jocelyn
1847, The Columbian Magazine, volumes 7-8, page 2851 more example
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.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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