Xmastide

English

Noun

Xmastide (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of Christmastide.
   • 1909 December 26, Henry James, edited by Percy Lubbock, The Letters of Henry James, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1920:

     We are just emerging from the rather deadly oppression of the English Xmastide—which I have spent at home for the first time for four years—a lone and lorn and stranded friend or two being with me; […]

   • 1930, J[ames] Harvey Bloom, Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land, London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, page 112:

     A room, a room, brave gallants all, / Pray give me room to ride, / I’m come to show activity / This merry Xmastide.

   • 2006, anonymous author, “The Firewood Poem”, in George East, French Kisses: A Memoir of Eternal Optimism in Rural France, Orion Books, published 2009, →ISBN:

     Store your beech for Xmastide, / With new cut holly laid beside.