What is "yuletide"

Usage examples of "yuletide".

Whereas the Yuletide rites were closely tied to the sun and the sun god Narcis, and the Icarii male Enchanters and Avar Banes dominated, Beltide celebrated the rebirth of the earth after the death of winter, and, in rites that celebrated renewal, the females had long dominated.

Before Christianity came to reconstruct the folk-tales of the Thuringian peasants, the Horselberg was the home of Dame Holda, or Holle, and the horde of weird creatures which used to go tearing through the German forests on a wild rout in the Yuletide.

As she handed around decorations for the children to place, she spoke of yuletides past, keeping alive good memories of their parents for the children while the room became increasingly more festive in green and red and gold.

I'd've tossed the two of you down Hob's Chimbley and left you there for a Yuletide gift, but what can I do?

Decorating trees on the watershed during the holidays, of course, was against the law (unnatural, too, according to April June) and the rangers had attempted to catch this yuletide desecrator of the watershed.

She did restore the choir of the Chapel Royal, where mass was said daily from 8 August 1553, and punctiliously observed the old pre-Reformation traditions, such as appointing a Lord of Misrule at Yuletide, or creeping to the Cross and blessing cramp rings on Good Friday, as well as touching sufferers of scrofula, the 'King's Evil', to effect a miraculous cure.

Neville considered that the jaded pixie still had plenty of life left in it, should The Swan's Yuletide revellers be persuaded to keep their malicious mitts off her.

So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist.