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Definition of Christmas Eve
1. Noun. The day before Christmas.
Definition of Christmas Eve
1. Proper noun. The evening before Christmas Day. ¹
2. Proper noun. The day before Christmas Day. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christmas Eve
Literary usage of Christmas Eve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"BURNT ON Christmas Eve. There is an old Scotch proverb, " He's as bare as ...
Hence our present Christmas Eve. On the night of this eve our ancestors were ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Masses are numbered, the MS. beginning with Christmas Eve, which is numbered "III".
Probably there were once two Advent Masses, as in the "Missale ..."
3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"accompanied him every Christmas Eve to see the marketings for Christmas down the
road from Aldgate to Bow; and he had a surprising fondness for wandering ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Such is the case with All-Saints' Eve, and perhaps even more so with Christmas
Eve, or the evening before Christmas Day. Under the latter head, ..."
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