Christmas box

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Christmas box

noun Christmas boxes

  1. historical A bonus or gift given by an employer to an employee, by a master/mistress to his/her servants, or by a householder to delivery persons at Christmas time, traditionally on Boxing Day. You have no idea how poor the court is; nobody is rich, except Mazarin and l'Abbé Fouquet. I am half tempted to cry with Madame Thurine, 'How happy are our servants! they, at least, get Christmas boxes.'

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noun bonus or gift

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DeutschWeihnachtsgeld

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@misc{christmas_box_2026,
  title = {Christmas box},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/christmas%20box},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}