wassailing
- present participle of wassail.
Example Sentences
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Class A, 1st, A formal affair … with tennis; A wassailing we will go; Best of the Wurst, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. ; 3rd, The Rescuers, Seguin Gazette-Enterprise.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2019
Peter McKintosh’s set has a sort of Vorticist pizazz, and I liked the sweet assemblage of wassailing mice that suggest the passage of the seasons.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
The British tradition of wassailing in exchange for a bowl of hot mulled cider goes back centuries, as does eggnog.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
This is orchard wassailing, the far older custom of serenading apple trees in winter to wake the sleepy, scrumpy-producing spirits within.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2013
Here we come a wassailing Among the leaves so green, Here we come a wand'ring, So fair to be seen.
From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
