Xmas
common abbreviation in writing of Christmas: see X 10. Also Xmassing.
| 1551 in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) I. 145 From X'temmas next following. c 1755 in B. Ward Hist. St. Edmund's Coll. (1893) 303 In ye Xmas and Whitsuntide Vacations. 1799 Coleridge Let. to Southey 24 Dec., My Xstmas Carol is a quaint performance. 1801 ― Let. to Southey 31 Dec., On Xmas Day I breakfasted with Davy. 1875 S. G. Thomas in R. W. Burnie Mem. & Lett. (1891) 55 We are not going to have any Xmas festivities or visitors of any kind. 1884 Punch 6 Dec. 268/1 He's beginning Xmassing already. |