Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, the first week-night after Christmas; the night of boxing-day.
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[Illustration] For many years this play was acted on boxing-night, as
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The strange noises, the confusion, the shouting and roaring, amid which all this is done, too, would put to shame the most turbulent sixpenny gallery that ever yelled through a boxing-night.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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The strange noises, the confusion, the shouting and roaring, amid which all this is done, too, would put to shame the most turbulent sixpenny gallery that ever yelled through a boxing-night.
Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 1841
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