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Definition of Christmas carol
1. Noun. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
Definition of Christmas carol
1. Noun. a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Carol
Literary usage of Christmas carol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1885)
"The humorous old knight laid a similar obligation on the women—that none of them
should drink until she that ruled her husband had sung a christmas carol. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"So fair a corpse shall leave its home ! Should mourn and should weep, ah, well-away !
So fair a corpse shall pace to-day ! " A christmas carol. ..."
3. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"First issues of first editions, comprising : A christmas carol in Prose, 1843;
The Chimes, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846; The Battle of Life. ..."
4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"^CHUZZLEWIT DISAPPOINTMENTS AND christmas carol. 1843-1844. Sale of Chuzzlewit—Publishers
and Authors—Unlucky Clause in Chuzzlewit Agreement—Resolve to have ..."
5. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"A christmas carol. For my 30000 Sea Island Friends. A Loving Greeting and Merry
Christmas.—CZA.RA. BARTON. Lo! The Christmas morn is breaking, ..."
6. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"THE christmas carol. " Now too is heard The hapless cripple, tuning through the
streets His Carol new ; and oft amid the gloom Of midnight hours, ..."
7. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"A christmas carol. IT chanced upon the merry, merry Christmas eve I went sighing
past the church, across the moorland dreary— " Oh ! never sin and want and ..."
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