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Перевод: wassailing

[существительное]
святочное хождение из дома в дом с пением рождественских гимнов

Тезаурус:

1. Resume your wassailing."
2. In the orchard, twelve fires are lit and the work of placating the tree spirits begins.It's called wassailing after the Anglo Saxon Was Hal meaning good health.Members of Leominster Morris pour cider around the tree roots to feed it and a piece of toast is placed in a cleft of a branch for the spirit to eat.
3. The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work apparently yes.It's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier.
4. It wasn't worth the fine, so I retreated to climb every escalator, dream the impossible dream of a store in which silent night meant peace to shop, and not another glutinous accompaniment to wassailing wallets.
5. In parts of England people still worship Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees, through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples.
6. Wassailing was originally probably a Roman fertility rite to praise and encourage Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees, and it is still carried out in parts of the UK on Twelfth Night to ensure a good crop of apples the following year.
7. "Wassailing?"
8. Wassailing in Woodstock.