kissing-bunch

kissing-bunch (plural kissing-bunches)

1. 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