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Mrs. Santa Claus
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Mrs Santa Claus
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Mrs. Santa Claus.wav US
Proper noun
+ Mmes. Santa Claus Mrs. Santa Claus
en Mrs. Claus.
en Holiday Entertainments Containing Short Dramas, Dialogues, Tableaux, Stories, Recitations, Etc.Adapted to All Holidays, Including New Years, Washington’s Birthday, Easter, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Especially Christmas’ Occasions Charles O. Shoemaker 1889 Philadelphia The Penn Publishing Company Santa Claus Outwitted: A Drama in One Act Clara J. Denton “Scene II.—The Same” 10 Now, dear Mrs. Santa Claus, stay your tears. I think we can outwit your cunning husband yet. / Mrs. Santa Claus (seizing Fairy’s hand and kissing them).—O you dear, dear Fairy, I shall love you now better than ever.
en w:Thornwell Jacobs Sinful Sadday: Son of a Cotton Mill: A Story of a Little Orphan Boy Who Lived to Triumph Nashville, Tenn. Smith & Lamar 1907 67 There was a long table, and around on one side was a big row of Santa Clauses and Mrs. Santa Clauses.
en Choice Dialogues: A Collection of New and Original Dialogues for School and Social Entertainment Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker 1914 1919 Philadelphia The Penn Publishing Company A Christmas Eve Adventure Ella H. Clement “Scene III” 134 Mrs. Santa Claus, do you think your husband is going to bring that doll to our house?
en w:The Windsor Magazine 39 1914 206 2 Mrs. Santa Claus brushed a tear from her eye as she placed a generous bag of toys on the floor and prepared to depart.
en 23 January 1931 E. J. Melton Boonville Republican II 41 Boonville, Mo. front page https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1205836524/ 2 19482856 MANY MMES. SANTA CLAUS / The Saint Is a Polygamist, Judging from Alathean Activites. / There is a Mrs. Santa Claus. In fact, there are more than a score in the Alathean class of the Baptist Sunday School. This class of young women, one of the finest groups in the Baptist Sunday School, this year provided Christmas cheer for the family of its adoption.
en 14 November 1948 w:Los Angeles Times final LXVII Los Angeles, Calif. Times-Mirror Company part III 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/381257835/ 1 0458-3035 3638237 MMES. SANTA CLAUS—Kappa Alpha Theta’s Thursday benefit will aid three charities. Wrapping war orphans’ gifts are, left to right, Mmes. E. C. Burns, W. J. Stoessel, F. L. Wohlwend, Bayard Ryder and William Mabee.
en 30 December 1954 JayCees Provide 31 With Clothing Items w:Cut Bank Pioneer Press 45 24 Cut Bank, Mont. [3] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/959458679/ 2 2378-6876 11982522 Two local stores gave the Mmes. Santa Claus special, low prices on the goods, enabling the budget to take care of partial wardrobes for 19 girls and 14 boys.
en 6 December 1955 Valley Times late news 19 290 North Hollywood, Calif. 7 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/580335199/ 3 319724039 MMES. SANTA CLAUS — Members of Children’s Service League will bring to annual Christmas luncheon Friday gaily wrapped packages for children at Orthopaedic Hospital.
en 11 December 1975 Edna Fleming [Letters to the Editor] So Many to Thank The Chatham Press LXXXIX 29 Chatham, N.J. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/95321525/ 1 27920175 The Mmes. Santa Claus delighted many of the strollers with gift certificates, Christmas greeting from the following stores:
en The Zebra Storyteller: Collected Stories w:Spencer Holst 1993 Station Hill Literary Editions 0882681249 The Santa Claus Murderer 92, 93 So the next day several more prominent women came out, all dressed up like Mrs. Santa Claus with white powdered hair and red skirts and pillows in their stomachs and Santa Claus hats, and they weren’t killed either.But this new generation of kids, who grew up believing in Mrs. Santa Claus, seemed to have a different attitude toward women.
en Pat Hartman Ghost Town: A Venice California Life w:Xlibris 2004 102 1-4134-5428-3 Later I saw the stout matriarchs of both families walking together, both wearing bright red robes with white trim, like a couple of Mrs. Santa Clauses.
en Jan Whitaker Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class St. Martin’s Press 2006 978-0-312-32635-7 Crowd management was improved as female Santa’s helpers and Mrs. Santa Clauses came on the scene to calm children before their visit.
en Aimee Meredith Cox Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship w:Duke University Press 2015 978-0-8223-5943-2 She brought the unpainted ceramic Santas and Mrs. Santa Clauses, reindeer, elves, and gift packages to us by the box load and spent every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 or sometimes 9:00 showing us how to properly paint the white figures so that they looked “neat” and “professionally done.”
en Christmas Folklore