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wassail
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wassail
1. (formerly) a toast or salutation made to a person at festivities
2. a festivity when much drinking takes place
3. alcoholic drink drunk at such a festivity, esp spiced beer or mulled wine
4. the singing of Christmas carols, going from house to house
5. Archaic a drinking song


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So to Idiot Savant and a Christmas guest list including a flautist, a trumpeter and a wassailer - and the return to stage right for popular PA guru Nathaniel Stephenson on guitar and vocals no less.
On The Beat: Robert Nichols; Music by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
In days of old, you would expect to receive a visit from the Mari Lwyd (The Grey Mare) - a horse's skull, covered with a sheet, bedecked with ribbons which would be carried by a group of local wassailers.
Christmas customs; Michelle Rushton captures the essence of a Welsh ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
A slice of toast was hung from a tree where it was blasted to smithereens by a musket-bearing wassailer.
Song and dance to drive out the spirits by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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