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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, Wæs hæl, be whole, be well.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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