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Christmas spirit?
Answer for the clue "Christmas spirit? ", 7 letters:
wassail
Alternative clues for the word wassail
Word definitions for wassail in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., from Old Norse ves heill "be healthy," a salutation, from ves, imperative of vesa "to be" (see was ) + heill "healthy," from Proto-Germanic *haila- (see health ). Use as a drinking phrase appears to have arisen among Danes in England and spread ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A toast to health, usually at a festival. 2 The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc. 3 revelry. 4 A festive or drinking song or glee. vb. 1 (context transitive English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wassail \Was"sail\, v. i. To hold a wassail; to carouse. Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling, and wassailing. --Sir P. Sidney.
Usage examples of wassail.
Jesu our alther liege Lord to leave their wassailing for there was above one quick with child, a gentle dame, whose time hied fast.
Nevertheless, they go through the motions, set out a wassail bowl, paper cups depicting Santa Claus in various postures of levity, a herd of wax reindeer, and a university record player on which Toveh Botkin, music committee, keeps up a stream of modal progressions insisting glad tidings of great joy.
Christmas celebration, no more than wassailing does or wishing on a Christmas pudding.
As he planted a smacking buss upon her cheek, Melyssan saw that it was Sir Dreyfan, the face beneath his grizzled beard flushed from too much wassailing, a crown of holly tipped over his brow.
When it was unlocked, there emerged three non-collaborating Nellies, the four missing members of the kitchen staff, one business efficiency consultant, and a very angry Wassail Master.
The bishop's envoy was drinking more than either of them, beckoning constantly to Rosemund to bring him the wassail bowl, his gestures growing broader and less clear with every drink.
Firelight would glint on bottles of home made wine, and on the great bowl that waited for the spices and hot wine of the wassail cup.
If they are to feed their children, the dunnhie wassails must go and work their lands.