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Definition of Boxing Day
1. Noun. First weekday after Christmas.
Group relationships: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Noel, Yule, Yuletide
Generic synonyms: Legal Holiday, National Holiday, Public Holiday
Definition of Boxing Day
1. Noun. The day after Christmas; the 26th of December. ¹
2. Noun. (business marketing) the day or days following Christmas (December 25th) where stores have large reductions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxing Day
Literary usage of Boxing Day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"Boxing Day IN 1847. OF all the days throughout the year, There was never one, I
say, That could come up in former times, At all to Boxing Day. ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Savings Bank withdrawals up to /iio, and National Savings Stamps encashment up
to £3; all other offices are closed. Christmas Day. Boxing Day and Good ..."
3. Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"CHAPTER XIII. PANTOMIMES PAST AND PRESENT. A Theological Professor with a Taste
for Horse-racing—An Attempt to Recall Bygone Christmases—Boxing Day, ..."
4. Mystic London; Or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies (1875)
"In a metaphorical and technical sense, Boxing- day is always more or less ...
Boxing-day will inevitably be " wetter" in every sense than usual this year, ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1879)
"A week of boxing days would be a novelty, and we therefore prefer to suppose that
the week in which the boxing day in vacation occurs is what Mr. Coldstream ..."
6. Forty Years of Paris by Walter F. Lonergan (1907)
"... "Journee des Gifles" or a political Boxing-day—Ravachol the dynamiter. ONE of
those who were out of favour for many years with the powerful proprietor ..."
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