Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete form of twelfth.
[in the table of contents:] Twelfe-Night, or what you will. [as the title of a comedy:] Twelfe Night, Or what you will.
1623, William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies
- obsoleteObsolete form of twelve.
Tis now ſtrooke twelfe, get thee to bed Franciſco,
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
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