X'mas day

See also: X'mas Day, X-mas day, X-mas Day, Xmas day, and Xmas Day

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Noun

X'mas day (plural X'mas days)

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of Christmas day.
    • 1875 December 27, “Local News”, in Daily Citizen, volume XI, number 302, Ottawa, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 4:
      On X’mas day, 68 persons, between the ages of 18 months and 70 years, sat down to a Christmas dinner provided for them by the charitably disposed in all quarters of the city.
    • 1878 December 21, “The Churches To-morrow”, in The Gazette, volume CVII, number 305, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 6:
      Service X’mas day at 11 a.m.
    • 1899 October 27, a clerk, quotee, “Hinckley School Board. Financial Difficulty.”, in The Hinckley Free Press and South-West Leicestershire Gazette, number 145, Hinckley, Leicestershire, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
      They had no money before X’mas day and the teachers could not get their salaries.
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