Christmas card
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Christmas card
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Last year's Christmas card featured a family portrait that showed William and Catherine sitting on lush grass surrounded by spring daffodils, alongside their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The Christmas card also marked another year in Catherine's gradual return to public life, as she continued her recovery from cancer and chemotherapy treatment.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
He said that Campbell may not have been the only gamekeeper not to be on Mr Stewart's "Christmas card list".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
She prints them through a digital service for roughly the cost of a cheesy family Christmas card.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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