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What does Yuletide mean?

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Noun
  1. (dated) The period of celebration of a pre-Christian festival associated with the (northern) winter solstice, later absorbed into the festival of Christmas.
  2. (dated) The period around Christmas; the Christmas season, Christmastime; specifically, Christmas itself.
  3. (Australia, regional) The period of southern winter in the middle of the year, sometimes celebrated in the colder, snowy regions of Australia with allusions to Christmas, which originated as a marketing gimmick.
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Yuletide always ends up an anti-climax, resembling a period of mourning for the loss of what once was, rather than a fun and celebratory period.
Rich, frothy and laden with booze, eggnog is an inevitable part of the Yuletide tradition.
I have tried to cover all eventualities, to keep you and yours brimming with festive cheer throughout Yuletide.
The situation is getting worse and as the Yuletide season approaches, the traffic build up on this street is unbearable.
All of us tend to think of port as a Yuletide tipple but we should consider it as an option at other times.
If you don't like shops that start their Yuletide stuff in November, boycott them.

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