yule-log

We sit around the fireplace, sing carols, and enjoy a supper of stewed lentils, pâté, boudin blanc (white pudding), a green salad, and a bûche de Noël (yule-log).

Apricots on the Nile Colette Rossant 2004

Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

Or, failing live flames, toward the TV playing your yule-log video.

Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

In the south the head of the family kindles the yule-log, or _bûche-de-Noël_, which is supposed to continue burning until the arrival of spring.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Of course you spent Christmas at the old home in England -- one of those yule-log and plum-pudding

The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

As the yule-log blazed upon the hearth, our ancestors set up huge stones and danced round them, thus worshipping the god of fertility.

The God-Idea of the Ancients 1897

But there is a joy by the hearth when the yule-log is burning.

Sister Teresa 1892

While the company sat round the yule-log blazing on the hearth, eating mince-pies, or plum porridge, and quaffing a bowl of well-spiced elder wine, the mummers would enter, decked out in ribands and strange dresses, execute their strange antics, and perform their curious play.

Old English Sports 1892

The frozen grass was strewn with wrenched limbs, and here and there was an ash or a sugar-tree splintered and prostrate, but wily Uncle Ephraim was looking for a yule-log that would burn slowly and burn long; for as long as the log burned, just that long lasted the holiday of every darky on the place.

Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War John Fox 1891