| Summary: | christmas box n. Men and women exchange clothes with each other, and go from house to house singing and dancing, on which occasion Christmas-boxes are expected, and generally granted previous to the performance. [The Christmas boxes are ] presents, not in coin, for this is not in common use there, but in eatables, from turkey or a quarter of veal or mutton, or a piece of beef just killed for the occasion, down to a nicely smoked salmon. yes PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story 3/76 JH 3/76 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I christmas box on you Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Wed 07 Oct 2015; head word contains a hyphen
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