christmas

A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.

Do you celebrate Christmas?

This Christmas we’ll open presents, then go to grandma’s for dinner.

Ellipsis of Christmas season (“the period of time before and after Christmas Day, during which people prepare for and celebrate Christmas”); Christmastime.

The last three Christmases have been good for retailers.

Christmas shoppers spent less this December than last year, but our store will probably see just as many returned items during the twelve days of Christmas.

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Sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations; also (generally), any Christmas decorations.

[T]he antient Britons employed for the decoration of their houſes, or, more properly ſpeaking, of their bovvers, branches of ever-green, in invitation to the ſpirits: a cuſtom, vvhich, hovvever the motive may be aboliſhed, is retained to this inſtant. That kind of verdure vvhich is uſed to deck the vvindovvs, and old halls, vve novv, by metonymy, call Chriſtmas.

"Vere does the mince-pies go, young opium eater?" said Mr. Weller to the fat boy, as he assisted in laying out such articles of consumption as had not been duly arranged on the previous night. The fat boy pointed to the destination of the pies. "Wery good," said Sam, "stick a bit o' Christmas in 'em.[…]"

Red and green in color.

Of a dish: having a sauce made with red (ripe) and green (unripe) chili peppers.