| 单词 | christmas eve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChristmas Eve Christmas Eve n. the evening and hence the day before Christmas Day, the 24th of December.For a note about the date, see Christmas Day n.Cf. earlier Christmas Even n. and Christenmas eve at Christenmas n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun] midwinter nighta1200 yule night1303 midwinter evea1400 Christmas Evenc1400 midwinter evena1450 yule-even1473 Christmas Eve1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxijv The Duke..came to his Castle of Sandall, beside Wakefelde, on Christmas eue. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M7v The wakefull ketches on Christmas Eue. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. ii. iv. 61 He made carols for Christmas-eve, and plays for the Lord's-day. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxx. 48 Sadly fell our Christmas-eve . View more context for this quotation 1947 Star 21 Jan. 7/1 A man's objection to his wife being kissed under the mistletoe on Christmas Eve in a public house bar..ended in a fight among the customers. 2014 Courier (Dundee) 24 Dec. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 33/3 You may have to spend some of your Christmas Eve tying up loose ends at work. < as lemmas |
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