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Spectacle > Festivals > Twelfth Night

Preferred term

Twelfth Night  

Definition

  • The evening preceeding Twelfth Day (the Epiphany, q.v.), twelve days after Christmas, formerly kept as a time of merry-making and associated with many old customs [Ox Dict Christian Church]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Carnival, Twelfth Night
  • Epiphany, Eve of
  • Eve of Epiphany

Notation

  • 117002

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-WX4B2NJM-M

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