Christmas day

See also: Christmas Day

English

Noun

Christmas day (plural Christmas days)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Christmas Day.
    • 1912 December 20, “Church Notes”, in G. H. Graham, editor, The Nebraska News, volume VIII, number 42, Lincoln, Neb.: The Claflin Publishing Company, →OCLC, page [2], column 3:
      The breakdown of our holidays into days of mere worldly diversion is pathetic—e. g.: Fourth of July without patriotism, Thanksgiving day without thanks and Christmas day without Christ. What insults to the Almighty! Let us make it not alone a Santa-mas, but a Christ-mas.
    • 1954, Jack Harlan Yocum, A History of Theatre in Houston, 1836-1954 - Volume 2, page 400:
      The Euterpeans scheduled their first performance for Christmas day when a double bill of The Hough Diamond and Family Pictures was to be presented.
    • 1983 December 24, Nancy A. F. Langer, “The Nuclear Family Holiday Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 15:
      I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.
    • 1996, Richard Paul Evans, Timepiece, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 45:
      The year David turned six, Rose abandoned the Midas dream and left everything, including David, behind. It wasn't until the lonely and celebrationless Christmas day of that year that David accepted that his mother wasn't coming back.
    • 2002, Kathleen E. A. Monteith and Glen Richards, editors, Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom[1], →ISBN, page 166:
      With their themes and varied attractions, these parties became a much-anticipated event for Kingstonians on Christmas day after their dinner.
    • 2010, Jack White, Mastery of Self Promotion, →ISBN, page 119:
      Christmas day in 1998, we lived on the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Grove, California and watched a gam of whales breaching in the deep ultramarine water.