carolling
Door-to-door hymns
Carolling is the act of singing carols, especially Christmas songs, often in a group going door to door: We went carolling through the neighborhood on Christmas Eve.
The word evokes a festive, old-fashioned tradition of spreading holiday cheer through song.
Also spelled caroling.
Festive door-to-door singing
- VictorianOf a prim era
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- customHabitual group practice
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
nostalgia · community · gathering · annual · observance · folkways · door-to-door · procession
Winter holiday period
- noelFestive December song
- hollySpiny-leaved winter shrub
- jingleBrief advertising melody
- adventNotable arrival or emergence
mistletoe · wassailing · candlelight · snowfall · sleighbells · doorstep · lanterns · garlands
wassailing
Festive door-to-door singing
ritual · nostalgia · community · gathering · annual · observance · folkways · door-to-door · procession · neighborhood
yuletide
Winter holiday period
advent · mistletoe · wassailing · candlelight · snowfall · sleighbells · doorstep · lanterns · garlands · evergreen
choir
Organized group of singers
acapella · polyphony · madrigal · anthem · wassail · part-singing · rounds · descant · unison · voices
nativity
State of being born
shepherds · manger · hallelujah · rejoice · blessing · reverence · devotion · praise · worship · scripture
carollingmourning
Period following loss
grieving · lamenting · funeral rites · sitting shiva · eulogizing
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