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Xmas

noun
1.
A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.  Synonyms: Christmas, Christmas Day, Dec 25.






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"Xmas" Quotes from Famous Books



... little antics that are playing at being frightend, like children at a sham ghost who half know it to be a mask, are detestable. Then the letters are nothing more than a transparency lighted up, such as a Lord might order to be lit up, on a sudden at a Xmas Gambol, to scare the ladies. The type is as plain as Baskervil's—they should have been dim, full of mystery, letters to the mind rather than the eye.—Rembrandt has painted only Belshazzar and a courtier ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb



Words linked to "Xmas" :   dec, Dec 25, feast day, December, fete day, quarter day, public holiday, legal holiday, national holiday, Christmas, holy day of obligation



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