Christmastide
Example Sentences
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Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 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
