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The idea can be traced to 200 AD, but one of the first written usages of Christmas as one word goes back to a carol written by Richard Smart in the 1400s. Historians pretty much agree that it was spoken as one before the 1100s. Some of this is hard to pinpoint exact dates. Sorry.
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∙ 12y ago"Christmas" originated as a compound meaning of "Christ's mass". It was derived from the Middle English Cristemasse which itself is a derivation from older English first recorded in 1038.
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