Definition of "twelvemonths" [twelvemonths]

• Plural form of twelvemonth. (noun)

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• "I have been miserably ill, or unhealthy, during the last twelvemonths, and quite as bad in spirits. —"
• "French watering-place — especially since our last visit to Naples within these twelvemonths, when we found only four conditions of men remaining in the whole city: to wit, lazzaroni, priests, spies, and soldiers, and all of them beggars; the paternal government having banished all its subjects except the rascals."
• "There is a man at large, at the moment when this paper is preparing for the press (on the 29th of April, 1850), and never once taken up yet, who, within these twelvemonths, has been probably the most audacious and the most successful swindler that even this trade has ever known."