Twelve Days of Christmas
Cumulative gift carol
The Twelve Days of Christmas are the festive period between Christmas Day (December 25) and Epiphany (January 6), marking the time between Christ's birth and the arrival of the Magi.
The phrase also names a cumulative carol in which a lover receives increasingly elaborate gifts—partridges, turtle doves, French hens, and so on—one for each day: On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
- AdventChristmas preparatory season
- EpiphanyChristian feast, January sixth
- ChristmastideNativity celebration period
- partridgeGround-dwelling game bird
- wassailingFestive door-to-door singing
turtle doves · geese · Boxing Day · swans · maids · milking · caroling · gift giving · gift list · liturgical drama · holiday cheer · festivity · folk carols · crèche · Sinterklaas · pipers · true love · Midnight Mass
- holiday songsSilent Night, The First Noel, Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman
- Cumulative Songs
- Sing-AlongsJingle Bells, Kumbaya, campfire songs, camp songs, karaoke
Twelve Days of ChristmasTaps
Bugle call for mourning
Mary Had a Little Lamb · jingle · Jingle Bells · ditty · brevity
Twelve Days of Christmasfuneral dirge
Music for mourning ceremonies
silent meditation · Taps · lament · elegy · requiem
twelve, Christmas, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Christendom, christen, christening, daytime