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Dec. 25, 2014

Christmastide \KRIS-muhs-tahyd\ noun 1. the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day. 2. the period from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, especially in England. 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 Origin Christmastide entered English in the 1620s. Tide comes from the Old English tid meaning "point or portion of time."

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