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n. The period around Christmas and New Year
Usage examples of "festive season".
All these riotous revellers used to welcome in the festive season back home.
Although, because it was the festive season, they'd used a piece of pork crackling.
There was a song winding through her heart, a song written this winter, after the festive season, in response to a promise a lady had made.
The Squire liked company, and the friends whom he had asked down for the festive season had all stayed at Happy-Thought Hall before, and were therefore well acquainted with each other.
Nothing can be done to advance the proclamation of your title and the securing of your estate until after the festive season.
After a festive season of this nature, it may not surprise you to know that I took an early opportunity to return to my place of business in Equity Court, where I found not much business going on.
He was always good companydear old Tonya face from home, someone with whom to share the festive season.
But with the approach of the holidays, the precinct people burst with Christmas spirit and happily set about the task of decorating the park's scant green patches with rivers of red in honor of the festive season.
With the festive season nearly upon us, I've been pondering much on the nature of forgiveness.
Then, after what seemed aneterniiy, he finally negotiated Ihe Fiat off the ferry, around some makeshift Malls still selling tourist junk on the off-chance of catching some gullible holidaymaker who had left home and hearth to spend the festive season here on the undeniably beautiful shambles that was Ischia, the peaceful island that had known the crack and blast of history, and seen much violent death as well as happiness in its time.
That, too, had come from her parents-in-law's old house but it, at least, required nothing more than a gentle wipe before being garlanded with holly and ivy for the festive season.