white Christmas

white Christmas
a) A Christmas Day on which there is a ground covering of snow.

"Its 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."

b) A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or some similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices.

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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