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Mrs. Santa Claus en · PROPN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Mrs. Claus.
   alt of Mrs. Claus
   • The Mmes. Santa Claus delighted many of the strollers with gift certificates, Christmas greeting^([sic]) from the following stores: […] 1975 December 11, Edna Fleming, “[Letters to the Editor] So Many to Thank”, in The Chatham Press, volume LXXXIX, number 29, Chatham, N.J., →OCLC, column 1:
   • 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. 1954 December 30, “JayCees Provide 31 With Clothing Items”, in Cut Bank Pioneer Press, volume 45, number 24, Cut Bank, Mont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 2:
   • 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. 1931 January 23, E. J. Melton, editor, Boonville Republican, volume II, number 41, Boonville, Mo., →OCLC, front page, column 2:
   • 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. 1948 November 14, Los Angeles Times, final edition, volume LXVII, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times-Mirror Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, part III, page 4, column 1:
   • Crowd management was improved as female Santa’s helpers and Mrs. Santa Clauses came on the scene to calm children before their visit. 2006, Jan Whitaker, Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1889, Clara J. Denton, “Santa Claus Outwitted: A Drama in One Act”, in Charles O. Shoemaker, editor, Holiday Entertainments Containing Short Dramas, Dialogues, Tableaux, Stories, Recitations, Etc. […], Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, “Scene II.—The Same”, page 10:
   • 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.” 2015, Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2004, Pat Hartman, Ghost Town: A Venice California Life, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 102:
   • There was a long table, and around on one side was a big row of Santa Clauses and Mrs. Santa Clauses. 1907, Thornwell Jacobs, Sinful Sadday: Son of a Cotton Mill: A Story of a Little Orphan Boy Who Lived to Triumph, Nashville, Tenn.: Smith & Lamar, page 67:
   • 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. 1993, Spencer Holst, “The Santa Claus Murderer”, in The Zebra Storyteller: Collected Stories, Station Hill Literary Editions, →ISBN, pages 92, 93:
   • Mrs. Santa Claus brushed a tear from her eye as she placed a generous bag of toys on the floor and prepared to depart. 1914, The Windsor Magazine, volume 39, page 206, column 2:
   • MMES. SANTA CLAUS — Members of Children’s Service League will bring to annual Christmas luncheon Friday gaily wrapped packages for children at Orthopaedic Hospital. 1955 December 6, Valley Times, late news edition, volume 19, number 290, North Hollywood, Calif., →OCLC, page 7, column 3:
   • Mrs. Santa Claus, do you think your husband is going to bring that doll to our house? 1914, Ella H. Clement, “A Christmas Eve Adventure”, in Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, editor, Choice Dialogues: A Collection of New and Original Dialogues for School and Social Entertainment, Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, published 1919, “Scene III”, page 134:

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