aguinaldo

plural aguinaldos

1. countableuncountableA gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
2. countableuncountableA gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
3. countableuncountableChristmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
4. Latin AmericacountableuncountableA Christmas carol.
5. countableuncountableA song performed in this style.

   And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.

   2007 October 16, Jon Pareles, “Planting a Love Seed at the Garden”, in New York Times

6. countableuncountableA wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.

1. A municipality of Ifugao, Philippines.