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vespertide

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed

archaic, poetic, uncountable

Examples

And the holy nuns after vespertide, / All forth from the chapel are gone
And holy Vespertide had rolled / Its fulgent waves of molten gold / Adown the forest bower
“At vespertide on that summer Sunday, seven or eight thousand cavalry advanced with loud shouting and clang of trumpets against the Ziscaberg, carried an outwork on a lower slope of the hill, and passed on to the tiny fortress above.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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