kissing-bunch

English

Noun

kissing-bunch (plural kissing-bunches)

A bundle of evergreen leaves or branches, typically with berries, hung up at Christmas-time, under which people may kiss.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
  The kissing-bunch, of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.
  Penguin 2006, p. 104

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