Christmas boxes
Christmas boxes is the plural of Christmas box.
Meaning of Christmas box
Noun
Christmas box (plural Christmas boxes)
- 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.'1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC
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- What is Christmas boxes the plural of?
- Christmas boxes is the plural of Christmas box.
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