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What is a Crawling Pixie?

Answer:

A Crawling Pixie is a pixie figure printed on a piece of pasteboard and cut out and which is put up on walls or furniture as ornament at Christmas.

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What is a Jumping Pixie (Jumping Jack)?

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A Jumping Pixie (Jumping Jack)Picture / Billede is a wood- or pasteboard figure which flings it's arms and legs about when you pull in a string. The Jumping Pixie is normally hang from a nail on the wall.

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What is a Snow Globe (Snowglobe)?

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A snow globe (snowglobe)Picture / Billede also called a "waterglobe", "snowstorm", or "snowdome" is a transparent sphere, usually made of glass, enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a landscape. The sphere also encloses the water in the globe; the water serves as the medium through which the "snow" falls. Snow globes feature diverse scenes, ranging from the typical holiday souvenirs to more eclectic collectibles featuring Christmas scenes. To activate the snow, the globe is shaken or turned to churn up the white particles. The globe is then placed back in its position and the flakes fall down slowly through the water. Snow globes sometimes have a built-in music box that plays a song. Some snow globes even have a design around the outer base for decoration.

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What is a Post card or Postcard?

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A post card or postcard, also called picture post card or just cardPicture / Billede, is a small, commercially printed card on cardboard generally in rectangular shape, usually having a picture on one side, to which a postage stamp must be attached for mailing and normally posted without an envelope.

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What is a Christmas card?

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A Christmas cardPicture / Billede is a printed and often decorated card (postcard) for mailing at Christmas to express good wishes.

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What is a Christmas stocking or Christmas sock?

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A Christmas stocking or Christmas sock also called a Christmas soxPicture / Billede is a stocking or stockingshaped bag, traditionally hung on a mantelpiece or Christmas tree by children on Christmas Eve, for holding Christmas presents, especially those believed to be brought by Santa Claus.

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What is a Christmas tree?

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A Christmas treePicture / Billede is an evergreen tree decorated at Christmas with ornaments and lights, as a tree in a yard or public square or, more commonly, a small, sometimes artificial evergreen displayed in the home.

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What is a Wreath?

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A wreath (plural wreaths)Picture / Billede is something twisted or bent into a circular form; a circular band of flowers, foliage, or any ornamental work, for adorning the head or for any decorative purpose; a garland or chaplet.

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What is an Advent wreath?

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An Advent wreathPicture / Billede is a wreath, which bears four candles, one of which is lighted every Sunday until the Sunday before Christmas, that is first Sunday in Advent one candle is lighted, second Sunday lights both the first and a new candle and so on. At the Sunday before Christmas all 4 candles are lighted.

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What is a Christmas wreath?

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A Christmas wreathPicture / Billede is a wreath, which is traditionally hung outside on the front door at the Christmas season for decoration. Also hung indoor.

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What is an Advent Calendar?

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An Advent Calendar is an Almanac of days in December to Christmas, a calendar with 25 days, which goes from December 1 to December 25 and where each day can be marked with a picture behind a closed door or possibly with a small packed gift.

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What is Holly?

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Holly (plural hollies)Picture / Billede is 1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex, as Ilex opaca (American holly), the State tree of Delaware, or Ilex aquifolium (English holly), having glossy, spiny-toothed leaves, small, whitish flowers, and red berries. 2. the foliage and berries, used for decoration, especially during the Christmas season.

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What is Mistletoe?

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MistletoePicture / Billede is an European evergreen shrub having forked branches, yellowish flowers and white berries, growing parasitically on various trees; Latin name Viscum album. Is for example used as a Christmas decoration under which one traditionally kiss each other.

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What is a Snowman?

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A snowman (plural snowmen)Picture / Billede is a figure, resembling that of a man, made out of packed snow. A snowman is a man-like sculpture made of snow. Snowmen are usually constructed by children; however, adults sometimes also participate. In occidental cultures on the northern hemisphere, snowmen are considered a symbol of Christmas and winter for many.

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What is a Reindeer?

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A reindeer (plural reindeer; plural - occasionally reindeers)Picture / Billede is any of several large deer of the genus Rangifer, of northern and arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America, both male and female of which both have antlers. Reindeer makes wide migrations in large herds for food. The European reindeer, Rangifer tarandus is 1.37 m (4.5 English feet (ft.)) high at shoulder and have a length of 1.68 m (5.5 English feet (ft.)). The summer coat is brown and the winter coat is pale grey or whitish. In Eurasia and in Greenland the reindeer is several places kept as domestic animal.

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What is a Sleigh?

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A sleighPicture / Billede is a light vehicle on runners (either of the long, bladelike strips of metal or wood on which a sledge or sleigh slides), that is usually open and generally horse-drawn, and that is used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.

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What is a Jingle Bell?

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A jingle bell (plural jingle bells) or sleigh bell (plural sleigh bells)Picture / Billede is any of several kinds of small bells attached to a sleigh or to the harness of the animal drawing the sleigh. They consist of a closed bell with a ball inside and are manufactured of metal, for instance brass or even silver. Sleigh bells are also manufactured mounted on a handle for use as a musical instrument.

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What is the North Pole?

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The North PolePicture / Billede is Geographic the end of the earth's axis of rotation marking the northernmost point on the earth.

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What is a Candy cane?

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A candy canePicture / Billede is a piece of sweets (candy), which often is shaped as a cane and candy-cane striped. Made with sugar.

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