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Christmas box

noun

  1. a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc


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At last, on December 23, with his five shillings Christmas-box in his pocket, Paul wandered blindly home.

She did not know of that consolatory Christmas-box in the cupboard.

But the most beautiful Christmas-box was contained in the letter, which his mother read aloud with tears of emotion.

I have told you what the parcel contains that you may not expect greater things than will appear from our little Christmas Box!

Got $5 for a tale and $12 for sewing; sent home a Christmas-box to cheer the dear souls in the snow-banks.

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