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prettygoodwordopentyde - n., the period between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday.
I said I wouldn't use much from Forgotten English, but this one is too interesting to pass up. Opentyde was one of the three seasons for getting married in traditional England -- presumably because there was no religious reason to avoid them, such as the peri-Easter observances.
The calendar tells me that today is the feast day of St. Paula the Bearded.
---L.
I said I wouldn't use much from Forgotten English, but this one is too interesting to pass up. Opentyde was one of the three seasons for getting married in traditional England -- presumably because there was no religious reason to avoid them, such as the peri-Easter observances.
The calendar tells me that today is the feast day of St. Paula the Bearded.
---L.
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Date: 2009-01-20 07:09 pm (UTC)It's an excellent word.
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Date: 2009-01-20 11:08 pm (UTC)- On 6 January: "Opentyde, which ran from today, the Feast of Epiphany, through Ash Wednesday, when marriages commonly took place."
- On 12 January: "Marrying Days once began about this date in Britain, running through Septuagesima Sunday on February 8--the first of three annual wedding "seasons.""
(Bolding in the original, where they were set off as subheads.) Something of a disconnect there, as Septuagesima Sunday is two and a half weeks before Lent starts.---L.
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Date: 2009-01-21 05:08 am (UTC)By the way, if you don't have The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings already, you should order it; you will enjoy it. A friend sent it to me last year. Can't remember whether I mentioned it to you already.
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Date: 2009-01-21 02:12 pm (UTC)---L.