Christmas Box

Definition: Christmas Box

1. (British) a present given at Christmas for services during the year.

Specialty Definition: Christmas Box

Domain	Definition
Literature	Christmas Box A small gratuity given to servants, etc., on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day). In the early days of Christianity boxes were placed in churches for promiscuous charities, and opened on Christmas Day. The contents were distributed next day by the priests, and called the "dole of the Christmas box," or the "box money." It was customary for heads of houses to give small sums of money to their subordinates "to put into the box" before mass on Christmas Day. Somewhat later, apprentices carried a box round to their master's customers for small gratuities. The custom since 1836 has been gradually dying out. "Gladly the boy, with Christmas-box in hand, Throughout the town his devious route pursues, And of his master's customers implores The yearly mite." Christmas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: Christmas Box

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving	Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Christmas Box

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Christmas Box (1995)
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Commercial Usage: Christmas Box

Domain	Title
Books	The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope (reference) The Christmas Box Collection: The Christmas Box, Timepiece, and the Letter (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Christmas Box

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Remember the poor : a Salvation Army Christmas box. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Christmas Box

Modern Translation: Christmas Box

Language		Translations for "Christmas box"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhuratë për krishtlindje. (various references)

Czech		dárkový balíèek. (various references)

Manx		nastey Nollick. (various references)

Pig Latin		istmaschray oxbay

Spanish		aguinaldo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Christmas Box

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-m-o-r-s-s-t-x"
	-3 letters: acrotisms, choriambs, masochist, ostracism.
	-4 letters: acrotism, actorish, amorists, borschts, cambists, chamisos, chariots, charisms, choriamb, chrisoms, cohabits, haricots, isobaths, isotachs, massicot, matchbox, shortias, stomachs, tachisms.
	-5 letters: amorist, aorists, aristos, atomics, biomass, bistros, boarish, borscht, borshts, bothria, boxcars, cambist, cashbox, castors, chamiso, chamois, chamoix, chariot, charism, chiasms, chimars, chrisma, chrisms, chrisom, chromas, cohabit, combats, cosmist.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
christmas box	18
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