white Christmas

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Noun

white Christmas (plural white Christmases)

  1. A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall.
    Antonym: black Christmas
    • 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation:
      “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”, in 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”, in Toronto Star, page 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.”

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