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Xmas
common abbreviation in writing of Christmas: see X 10. Also Xmassing.
1551in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) I. 145 From X'temmas next following. c1755in B. Ward Hist. St. Edmund's Coll. (1893) 303 In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations. 1799Coleridge Let. to Southey 24 Dec., My Xstmas Carol is a quaint performance. 1801― Let. to Southey 31 Dec., On Xmas Day I breakfasted with Davy. 1875S. G. Thomas in R. W. Burnie Mem. & Lett. (1891) 55 We are not going to have any Xmas festivities or visitors of any kind. 1884Punch 6 Dec. 268/1 He's beginning Xmassing already. |