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单词 christmas night
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Christmas night
a. With the sense ‘of, relating to, associated with, or suitable for Christmas’, as in Christmas game, Christmas morning, Christmas night, Christmas party, etc.
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1021 Her on þisan geare..Ælfgar biscop se ælmesfulla forðferde on Cristesmæsseuhtan.
lOE Permission to ring Bells, Exeter in J. Earle Hand-bk. Land-charters (1888) 260 Þat yc..gef leaua ðam munche on Sancte Nicholaus minstre to hringinde hyre tyde be dage & be nihte, hwanne hy efre willat..bute an Cristesmasseniht, & giestersunneue.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 283 I craue in þis court a crystemas gomen.
c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 332 (MED) We wyll cum gyf yow a Crystemes songe.
a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 132 The fyrst branch was of gret myght, That spronge on Crystmas nyght.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 26 To..gather nuttes to make me Christmas game.
1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame xxxiii He kept no Christmas-house for once a year.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Intr. ii. 134 A Christmas gambold, or a tumbling tricke. View more context for this quotation
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Z Kindle the Christmas Brand and then Till Sunne-set, let it burne.
1721 R. Palmer Let. 15 Apr. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxiv. 86 In the Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun holidays, our penny post comes but once a day.
1799 R. Southey Sonn. xv Watching the children at their Christmas mirth.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. ii. 34 I hope I shall remember, in future,..not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays. View more context for this quotation
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 18 I..heard..The clear church-bells ring in the Christmas morn.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxx. 48 We weave The holly round the Christmas hearth. View more context for this quotation
1937 G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 289 Passing Her Majesty's Theatre, I saw by the placards that a Christmas pantomime was going on inside.
1965 ‘P. Nichols’ Patchwork of Death (1967) iv. 19 There was the Christmas rush beginning.
2014 Courier (Dundee) 24 Dec. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) (TV & Radio Suppl.) 8/1 Chummy is asked to help out at a mother and baby home whose residents have little in the way of Christmas cheer.
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