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Noun
Christmas box (plural Christmas boxes)
- (historical) A bonus or gift given by an employer to an employee, by a master/mistress to his/her servants, or by a householder to delivery persons at Christmas time, traditionally on Boxing Day.
1834, L E L, Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC:You have no idea how poor the court is; nobody is rich, except Mazarin and l'Abbé Fouquet. I am half tempted to cry with Madame Thurine, 'How happy are our servants! they, at least, get Christmas boxes.'
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