jolabokaflod
[ yoh-luh-boh-kuh-flawd, joh- ]
noun
an Icelandic tradition in which books are given as Christmas presents and opened on December 24, after which the evening is spent reading the books: from a practice begun in 1944, when paper goods were among the most available items in postwar Iceland.
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