X'mas Day

plural X'mas Days · alternative X'mas day · alternative X-mas Day · alternative X-mas day · alternative Xmas Day · alternative Xmas day

1. abbreviationinformalAbbreviation of Christmas day.

   Purchases made and paid for of Oriental Goods for Christmas Presents can be stored free of charge and delivered any time before X’mas Day.

   1894 November 17, S. Carsley, “Carsley’s Column”, in The Gazette, volume CXXIII, number 276, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 5

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   The committee have made a happy selection in fixing X’mas Day for the interesting gathering, and it is to be sincerely hoped that the meeting will be a successful and joyous one; […]

   1885 December 11, “Notes of the Week”, in Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser and Guardian, and East and Mid Cheshire Gazette, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, →OCLC, page 4, column 5

   “[…] We will compare notes later on.” And we did, as I escorted Miss Denison back to her aunt’s house just before X’mas Eve became X’mas Day.

   1890 December 27, Percy Lawton, “A Fairy in Furs; or, Caught at Christmas”, in The Wrexham Advertiser, and North Wales News, volume XLII, Wrexham, Denbighshire, →OCLC, chapter IV, page 7, column 4

plural X'mas days · alternative X'mas Day · alternative X-mas Day · alternative X-mas day · alternative Xmas Day · alternative Xmas day

1. abbreviationinformalAbbreviation of Christmas day.

   Service X’mas day at 11 a.m.

   1878 December 21, “The Churches To-morrow”, in The Gazette, volume CVII, number 305, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 6

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   On X’mas day, 68 persons, between the ages of 18 months and 70 years, sat down to a Christmas dinner provided for them by the charitably disposed in all quarters of the city.

   1875 December 27, “Local News”, in Daily Citizen, volume XI, number 302, Ottawa, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 4

   They had no money before X’mas day and the teachers could not get their salaries.

   1899 October 27, a clerk, quotee, “Hinckley School Board. Financial Difficulty.”, in The Hinckley Free Press and South-West Leicestershire Gazette, number 145, Hinckley, Leicestershire, →OCLC, page 2, column 3