Hope you have a lovely Monday – whether you celebrate Christmas or not. May happiness and health be yours and follow you and your loved ones into the new year!

A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

One who eats at the same mess, companion or comrade.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

A woman’s commodity.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.