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Wassail

(2 syl.). A salutation used on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day over the spiced-ale cup, hence called the “wassail bowl.” (Anglo-Saxon, Waes hael, be whole, be well.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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