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• n  period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6

• For 43 years, A Charlie Brown Christmas has endured as one of America's most popular TV yuletide events a funny and gentle holiday reminder that Christmas is supposed to be .
• That game, played between German and British soldiers in no man's land amid a remarkable unofficial yuletide truce, expressed the shared humanity among the combatants of both sides.
• Objecting to the yuletide festivities on the grounds that they didn't square with the Bible's teachings, in 1659 the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the holiday .

• Christmas
• Christmastide
• Christmastime
• Yule
• Yuletide
• Noel

News & Articles

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• Dublin is named one of the top spots for Christmas
  Dublin is one of the best places in the world to spend Christmas, according to global travel advisors, Lonely Planet. In its top 10 travel destinations for Yuletide, the travel guide put Dublin at number six.
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central
• 150 Boise icons to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial: Boise Christmas lights
  On what is likely to be one of the hottest days of the year, we bring you this chilly, out-of-season icon. Reader Erik Nystrom nominated the citywide Yuletide display.
  June 28, 2013 - The Idaho Statesman

Quotes

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• Jake Kasdan in USA Today
  As Kasdan says, "It's a full frontally nude movie type of yuletide experience."
• Purno Sangma in Hindustan Times
  Everybody here is drowned in this yuletide passion,said Sangma, a college student.
• Ignacio Bunye in Sun.Star
  Bunye said the ceasefire from December 16 to January 5 is not aimed at appeasing the communist rebels "but to uphold the true spirit and meaning of the Yuletide season."