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wassail

[wos-uhl, -eyl, was-, wo-seyl] / ˈwɒs əl, -eɪl, ˈwæs-, wɒˈseɪl /




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They’ll be trolling the ancient yuletide carol, and some newer ones too, at the “56th Annual Wassail Concert at Chapman University.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

They’ll be singing in the season for the first time at the brand-spanking new Musco Center for the Arts in Orange in the “53rd Annual Wassail Concert at Chapman University.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2016

Wassail from this creaky crier— The same, along with love and kisses, To Michelle and two First Misses.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 14, 2009

The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sack, and the well-spic'd Hippocras the wine, Wassail the bowl with ancient ribbons fine, Porridge with plums, and turkies with the chine.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.




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