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CHRISTMAS

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Christmas substantiv

(presc. Xmas) Crăciun;

Father Christmas Moş Crăciun, Moş Gerilă;

(prov.) Christmas comes but once a year nu e în toate zilele sărbătoare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

And I tell you, right now, the Christmas Transcontinental don't go to press till I have the money in my hand.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

‘Well,’ said I, ‘you said you’d give me one for Christmas, and I was feeling which was the fattest.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She came here to a Christmas ball and party Mr. Rochester gave.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

In general their evenings were less engaged with friends than their mornings; but one complete dinner engagement, and out of the house too, there was no avoiding, though at Christmas.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife, who came as usual to spend the Christmas at Longbourn.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Is it Christmas gaieties that he is staying for?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Here Mrs Smith paused a moment; but Anne had not a word to say, and she continued—This was the light in which it appeared to those who knew the family, long before you returned to it; and Colonel Wallis had his eye upon your father enough to be sensible of it, though he did not then visit in Camden Place; but his regard for Mr Elliot gave him an interest in watching all that was going on there, and when Mr Elliot came to Bath for a day or two, as he happened to do a little before Christmas, Colonel Wallis made him acquainted with the appearance of things, and the reports beginning to prevail.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

"I'll tell you what we'll do," said Beth, "let's each get her something for Christmas, and not get anything for ourselves."

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Knightley promises to give up his claim this Christmas—though you know it is longer since they were with him, than with us.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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