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Christmas's tree (plural Christmas's trees)

  1. (rare) Nonstandard form of Christmas tree.
    • 1998 November 22, Rhino, “TWINE Update”, in alt.fan.james-bond (Usenet):
      Seen today in the Sunday Times (not, it must be said, a British tabloid!) / [] This will also enable us to once again use the services of Nina, who sang a Bond song that we feel is one that most typifies the series. This 'series' link will be heightened by her rendition of 'Do You Know How Christmas's Trees Are Grown.'
    • 2005, Charles E. Carr, “A Parable of the Holy Star”, in At the Door: A Book of Writings, Lyrics, Poems & Inspiration Essays, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
      The young man in a mournful cry / “Help me Jesus” or I will die. / He saw the star turning slowly; / He knew he was anew and made Holy. / Someone found the man in the cold. / Placed him under a Christmas’s Tree boldly, / When held did arrive, He was awake and alive.
    • 2011, Ina M. Easter, “Remembering a Moment”, in God, I Wonder, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 59:
      Smell of cigarettes, trash burning, someone / Cooking oak gumbo with chicken & sausage, and muddy / Brown stew. Barbecue pits set off / Flames dancing into the wind. / Christmas’s tree spreading the smell of / Fresh pine cones.
    • 2012 December 8, petzl, “Moslems stop Christmass festivities in Campbelltown Shopping Centre”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
      Still can't grasp why Moslems oppose Christmas's trees? / In the Middle East were[sic] told a tree is a symbol of life. It is spectacular to see after days nothing but sand then in the distance a tree. You can see the Arabs mood change to pleasantry as soon as the "TREE" sighting is made. Once there you find water by the trees and usually a town
    • 2013 December 1, petzl, “Australian police find 328 guns, 4.2 tons of ammo at farm”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
      My local shopping Mall is not allowed to display Christmas's trees or play Christmas Carols because of Islamic threats
    • 2015, S Mahadevan, R Ramesh Kumar, “Part III: Intensive Care and Emergencies”, “Section 9: Poisoning and Envenomation”, “7. Scorpion Sting”, in Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha (section editor), editors, PG Textbook of Pediatrics, volumes 1: “General Pediatrics and Neonatology”, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.: The Health Sciences Publisher, →ISBN, “Management”, page 321:
      Table 6 Echocardiography, electrocardiogram and chest X-ray findings in scorpion sting envenomation / [] / [“Modality”] Electrocardiogram [“Finding and clinical significance”] [] In acute myocardial injury: Arrowhead tented T wave look like Ashoka tree appearance / • Recovery of myocardial injury: Tent-shaped look like Christmas’s tree appearance
    • 2019, Don Bourassa, Dee Boer US Marshal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      Ma, it’s not dads[sic] fault. Why are you hollering at him?” “I’ve watched your father go out and kill people for twenty years. He never talks about it, but it’s always there. When the phone rings, your father lights up like a / Christmas’s tree. He likes killing people.”

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