WHITSUNTIDE, noun [white, Sunday, and tide.] The feast or season of Pentecost; so called it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.