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What does Nativity mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
  2. (by extension) Christmas.
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In Matthew's Nativity, the angelic Annunciation is made to Joseph while Luke's is to Mary.
Other works include The Nativity for soprano and orchestra, sacred choral anthems, hymn preludes for organ and works for trumpet and organ.
The engravings of Adam and Eve and the Nativity, both of 1504, are the first fruits of these investigations.
Before we reached the summit of Shipka, from far off glinted the golden onion domes of the Church of the Nativity.
Also featured are Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francisco, Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise and Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
These details are not mentioned by the Gospels, but are an invariable feature of every icon of the Nativity.

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