white Christmas
English
Noun
white Christmas (plural white Christmases)
- A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall.
- 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation, ch. 8,
- “It′s like frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope it will snow all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw a white Christmas.”
- 1945 December 31, The Big Snow, Life, page 23,
- In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years, […] .
- 2008 December 18, David Bruser, “Thanks to more storms, Christmas may be white,” Toronto Star, p. A2,
- At Environment Canada, senior climatologist David Phillips′ standard for a white Christmas calls for at least two centimeters of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. . . . “In England, if a weather guy sees a snowflake, they call it a white Christmas.”
- 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation, ch. 8,
Derived terms
- white Christmas slice
Translations
a Christmas Day or Eve with snow
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See also
- snow day
- white Easter