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Noël

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Christmas day, or a Christmas carol. A contraction of nouvelles (tidings), written in old English, nowells.

“A child this day is born,

A child of high renown,

Most worthy of a sceptre,

A sceptre and a crown.

Nowells nowells, nowells!

Sing all we may,

Because that Christ, the King,

Was born this blessed day.”


Old Carol.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nobs and Snobs
Noble
Noble Soul
Noblesse Oblige (French)
Noctes Ambrosianæ
Noctuas Athenas Ferre
Nod
Nod (The Land of)
Noddy
Nodel
Noël
Nokomîs
Nolens Volens
Noli me Tangere
Noll
Nolle Prosequi [Dont prosecute]
Nolo Episcopari. [I am unwilling to accept the office of bishop.]
Nom
Nomads
Nominalists
Non Angli sed Angeli, si forent Christiani