Christmas Eve

plural Christmas Eves

1. The evening before Christmas Day.
2. The day before Christmas Day.

   This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent, until Christmas-Eve.

   1681, Church of England, The book of common prayer

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   With trembling fingers did we weave ⁠The holly round the Chrismas hearth; ⁠A rainy cloud possess’d the earth, And sadly fell our Christmas-eve.

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48

   Why was the cock supposed to crow all Christmas Eve ("The bird of dawning singeth all night long")?

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 27

   The family celebrated Christmas Eves together in the military stockade, sleeping on mattresses on the floor of Ninoy’s cell.

   1986, The Philippine Journal of Education, volume 65, page 38, column 1

   Brad led Matthew into the family room where they celebrated Christmas Eves and told Matthew, “Papa’s gone. He’s in heaven, and we’ll never see him again.”

   2015, Rhoda G. Penny, chapter 7, in An Extra Ordinary Life, Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 62

   And I was mourning the future, too. That Wally wouldn’t spend Christmas Eves with both of his parents, dressed up like a Santa or a Christmas pudding, overindulged in the morning.

   2017, Gillian McAllister, Everything but the Truth, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 294