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English
Etymology
From St. Andrew + -s- + -tide.
Proper noun
St. Andrewstide
- The feast day of Andrew the Apostle, 30 November, or the period around it.
1950, The Tablet, volume 196, page 72:Here, too, is enlightenment for readers of those recondite accounts of the Eton Wall Game which appear in The Times at St. Andrewstide.
1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 216:Although right up to St Andrewstide (30 November) 1075 concord had prevailed […] , at Worms the bishops had suddenly and unwarrantedly turned upon the pope.
1998, Nicola Currie, Stuart Currie, Seasons and Saints for the Christian Year: Resources for Celebrating the Three-Year Lectionary with Children, →ISBN, page 100:‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men’. The non-inclusive language unfortunately persists, presumably because of the word play ‘fishermen’/‘fishers of men’, but nothing could be more inclusive than the celebration of St Andrewstide.