white Christmas
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
white Christmas (plural white Christmases)
- A Christmas Day on which there is a ground covering of snow.
- 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,
- (Australia, food) A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices. [1]
- 2006, R.I.C. Publications, An Aussie Christmas, page 46,
- This popular white Christmas slice has been given an Aussie flavour and named after the sulphur-crested cockatoo.
- 2008, Lee-Ann Holmes, Rhymes for big rascals, R.I.C. Publications, page 74,
- Describe the changes CophaTM (a shortening agent derived from coconut flesh) makes to the mixture when making White Christmas slice.
- 2011, Sally Wise, Leftover Makeovers: Quick and Fabulous Food From Your Fridge and Pantry, unnumbered page,
- This version is richer and creamier than regular White Christmas slice.
- 2006, R.I.C. Publications, An Aussie Christmas, page 46,
References [edit]
- ^ 2005 December 12, White Christmas slice (recipe), Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio - Mid North Coast New South Wales, (retrieved 18 Dec. 2008).
