Christmasse
English
Proper noun
Christmasse
- Archaic form of Christmas.
- a. 1521, Christmasse Carolles, “newely enprinted” in 1521, London: […] Wynkyn de Worde; republished as John Ashton, “Boar’s Head Carol”, in A righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide[1], London: […] the Leadenhall Press, Ltd., […]; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], [1894]:
- Be gladde lordes bothe more and lasse, / For this hath ordeyned our stewarde / To chere you all this Christmasse / The bores heed with mustarde.
- 1600, Thomas Dekker, “Dedication”, in The Shoemakers Holiday. Or the Gentle Craft. […], London: […] Valentine Sims […]:
- […] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 191:
- Hereupon a Peace was concluded, which was publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after.
- 1645, The Arraignment, Conviction and Imprisonment of Christmas on S. Thomas Day last, […], […] Simon Minc’d Pye, […]; republished as John Ashton, “The Arraignment, etc., of Christmas”, in A righte Merrie Christmasse!!! The Story of Christ-tide[2], London: […] the Leadenhall Press, Ltd., […]; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], [1894]:
- “Lady—Honest Crier, I know thou knewest old Father Christmas; I am sent to thee from an honest schollar of Oxford (that hath given me many a hug and kisse in Christmasse time when we have been merry) to cry Christmas, for they hear that he is gone from hence, and that we have lost the poor old man; you know what marks he hath, and how to cry him.
- 1993, “10-13. Kenosha”, in Wisconsin Annual Events, page 38:
- YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet.