Christmastide

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While monks and guild actors performed dramatic retellings of biblical stories year-round, the plays were most frequent during Christmastide.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024

The carol is based on an ancient Christian tradition known as Twelvetide or Christmastide - where Christmas Day is the first day of Christmas and 5 January is the last.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2022

At Christmastide you can’t escape from the fact that Christianity centres on the birth of a child, and glories in it.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” consists of six cantatas written for various days of Christmastide and not intended to be performed together, as they often are today.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017

If good fortune blessed us there might be a little meat at Christmastide.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi