Word of the Da y Thursday, December 25, 2014 Christmastide \ KRIS-muhs-tahyd \ , noun; 1. the festival season from Christmas to after New Years Day. 2. the period from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, especially in England. Definition of Christmastide| See synonyms| Comment on todays word| Suggest tomorrows word Quotes: And then, hurrying on to the subject with confused haste, in order that a word or two might be spoken before her husband came back, she expressed her thanks and his for the good things which had been sent to them at Christmastide . -- Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset , 1867 I thought of my own childhood, when at Christmastide I had walked with my mother up and down this very street, so changed and modernized now; recalling that I had had definite desires, desperate ones... -- Winston Churchill, A Far Country , 1915
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