wassail

The wassail of my choice this year is a giant bottle of stout bottled in Wisconsin under the label “For Whom.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 18, 2018

The scent of cinnamon and clove permeated the building, as members brewed traditional wassail for the occasion.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

You spoiled them, and they came to expect your Christmas exertions as a tradition that spared them the effort of providing their own ham and wassail bowl.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2014

Isn’t it the home of wassail cups and figgy pudding?

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2014

The meats were followed by flaming puddings and bowls of wassail, chestnuts, and apples.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

In January I attend one of Kent’s growing number of wassails, a half-pagan, half-Christian ceremony in which an apple tree is fed a tribute of cider to encourage a good harvest later in the year.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2020

The fight against evil spirits continues the following month in the orchards of southern England, where Apple wassails, or Apple Howling ceremonies, are common.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2014

Warbeck, therefore, had little in common with the ruder chiefs around: he did not summon them to his board, nor attend at their noisy wassails.

From International Short Stories English by Various

Whilst youthful sports are lasting, To feasting turn our fasting; With revels and with wassails Make grief and care our vassals.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris

"Whilst youthful sports are lasting, to feasting turn our fasting: With revels and with wassails make grief and care our vassals, Fa-la!"

From Historic Girls by Elbridge Streeter Brooks

I wassailed the thing down to its yeasty dregs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2016

In this very place, perhaps upon this very spot, he feasted and wassailed with his warriors, and drained his horn to the future glories of his name.

From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

We wassailed deep into that night and out the other side, and we liked our Otto more than ever.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various

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

"Wassail, wassail, all over the town; Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown, Our bowl it is made of the mapling tree; With the wassailing bowl we will drink to thee."

From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris