white Christmas

plural white Christmases

1. A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.

   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,[…].

   1945 December 31, “The Big Snow”, in Life, page 23

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   “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.”

   1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation

   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.”

   2008 December 18, David Bruser, “Thanks to more storms, Christmas may be white”, in Toronto Star, page A2

   Antonyms: black Christmas