kissing-bunch

noun

A bundle of evergreen leaves or branches, typically with berries, hung up at Christmas-time, under which people may kiss.

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Meanings

nounkissing-bunch (plural kissing-bunches)

plural kissing-bunches

  1. A bundle of evergreen leaves or branches, typically with berries, hung up at Christmas-time, under which people may kiss.

    The kissing-bunch, of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.

    1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
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