Christmas seal

noun

1. a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.

Example Sentences

In Chicago, Christmas Seal funds were used to study the correlation between industrial labor and TB, since so many factory workers contracted it.

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Presented in collaboration with the Danish Christmas Seal Foundation, a charity benefiting children in need, the six table settings reveal very different interpretations of the season, ranging from the entirely glamorous to the downright humorous.

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There were several small remembrances from relatives and friends, a box of cigars from Miss Bradley; and beneath all a parcel in brown wrapping paper and unadorned by either Christmas seal, holly or ribbon.

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While many of the Magic Mountain sanatoriums have closed and the Christmas Seal drives have turned mostly to other causes, TB still thrives.

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A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives.

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