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n. (context Christianity English) A dramatic depiction of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, commonly performed by children in churches and in Christian schools during the Christmas season.
Wikipedia
A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity.
A nativity play is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus in Christianity.
Nativity Play may also refer to:
- The Nativity (play), a television drama with music about the birth of Christ
- "Nativity Play", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
Usage examples of "nativity play".
Wiry and pale, Sirhan wears the robes of a Berber goatherd on his body and the numinous halo of a utility fogbank above his head: In his abstraction, he vaguely resembles a saintly shepherd in a post-singularity nativity play.
Next day Kitty abandoned the hundred and one things she had to do, including making a dozen sets of angels' wings for the annual Valhalla nativity play, and nursed Lysander, feeding him dry toast and clear chicken soup, and letting him talk.
In Brenntau Cemetery with its two fields on either side of the avenue bordered by elm trees, with its little chapel that looked like a set for a Nativity play, with its well and its sprightly little birds, Matzerath led the procession and I followed.
His surrogate-father had died, still bewildered by his starring role in the Nativity Play.
A friend had taken him to the Metropolitan Museum where, in the medieval section, a Nativity Play was being performed in celebration of the coming of Christmas.
He turned the handle and stepped inside and his first thought was that he was back in the orphanage and Christmas was coming up and he was a Wise Man in the Nativity play again, holding a lantern and a stick and wearing an old brown trilby that someone had given to the poor - except that the actors inside the house he was now entering were in the wrong places and somebody had snatched the Holy Infant.