Mrs. Christmas

See also: Mrs Christmas

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

By analogy with Father Christmas.

Proper noun

Mrs. Christmas (plural Mrs. Christmases)

  1. Synonym of Mrs. Claus.
    • 1984 December 28, “Ho-ho! The girls are after our Santa”, in Evening Mail, Sandwell, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:
      Wizard Merlin Costume Hire say their saucy Mrs. Christmas outfits were the season’s favourites — even more popular than traditional Santas.
    • 1985 December 16, Gordon Griffiths, “Christmas carnival is a runaway success”, in Southern Evening Echo, Southampton, Hampshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
      Committee chairman Mrs. Sylvia Garland, setting the style in a Mrs. Christmas outfit, wanted to revive the illuminated processions held in the town until the 1930s.
    • 2012, Veronica Pinckard, chapter 5, in A Damn Fine Growth: Autobiography of a Cockney Kid, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 18:
      There were no Mrs. Christmases, and the song about Rudolph with his nose so bright hadn’t yet made his debut on the Christmas scene.
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