Santa Clause
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Santa Clauses
Senses: examples: text: ...each a good knife & some candy & put in their stockings for Santa Clause.
ref: 1978, Calvin Fletcher, “December 1857”, in The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, volume 6, page 153:
text: I can only sympathize with a teacher whose conscience is of such extreme dimensions that the corroboration of the "Santa Clause myth" causes a pang; and I should surely....I hope that few teachers of our fair Canada are burdened with such a troublesome conscience as your correspondent of Dec. 1st. Let us have Santa Clause in all his magnificence.
ref: 1906, Gideon E. Henderson, Matthew Parkinson, editors, The Canadian Teacher, page 511:
text: The section features several letters from children addressed to Santa. 14 letters are addressed "Dear Santa Clause", two are addressed "Dear Santa", and one is addressed to "Dear Old Santa Claus", which also mentions him by his full name two more times with the same spelling.
ref: 1908 December 17, The Jeannette Dispatch, Little Folks Write Good Old Santa Claus, page 9:
text: But since at times it is almost impossible to get at that time of the year, it became necessary to use some other methods of receiving and distributing the many presents from Santa Clause...Under the breakfast plate on Christmas morning a note is often placed, telling where Santa Clause has hidden the first present...There is a Christmas plum pudding made over a wire frame, covered with brown burlap and with raisins sewed on for decoration. This makes an excellent receptacle for the things brought by Santa Clause...
ref: 1910, Lenora Makelim, “Christmas Suggestions.”, in The Oregon Countryman, volume 3, pages 40–41:
text: Old Santa Clause, and him be me...They wuz no Santa Clause when he...
ref: 1915, James Whitcomb Riley, “What "Old Santa" Overheard”, in Riley Songs of Friendship, page 161:
text: ...Was the chance that I might see Santa Clause....For you see my time has come, I'm Santa Clause.
ref: 1920, The Virginia Reel, Virginia Reel, Incorporated, page 19:
text: Susie wiped away the tears, and turned to look out of the window. Perhaps she said to herself, "perhaps Santa Clause has something for me after all!" Now, the sad, really dreadful part about it was that Santa Clause didn't have one single thing for Susie in his pack.
ref: 1922, Silas Xavier Floyd, Alice H. Howard, “A Christmas Present.”, in The New Floyd's Flowers Illustrated Stories Especially Arranged for Colored People, Austin Jenkins, page 184:
text: Dear Santa Clause: It would please me very much for you to send me a flashlighter.
ref: 1934, Pacific Telephone Magazine, Fun For All, page 11:
text: ...and hope my dad and brothers Snake out tan bark to get a little money to buy things with One Xmas Santa Clause gave us three or four sticks of candie and a ornge^([sic])
ref: 1974, Eliot Wigginton, The Foxfire Book, volume 1, Anchor Press, page 16:
text: I understood all about Santa Clause, the baby Jesus and everything.
ref: 1984, Richard Gordon, The Bulldog and the Bear: A Play in Two Acts, S. French, page 74:
text: A year later, in Lynch v. Donnelly, the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island had erect a large Christmas display each holiday season in a privately owned park. This display included a Santa Clause house, reindeer, a Christmas tree, and carolers...
ref: 1990, Shlomo Slonim, editor, The Constitutional Bases of Political and Social Change in the United States, Praeger, page 77:
text: If we only remembered it was Christmas & not Santa Clause day.
ref: 1990, Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, Humphrey N. W. Toms, “22 December 1940”, in Doreen Walker, editor, Dear Nan, page 281:
text: "Well, Nutty Buddy's sick, too sick to have Santa Clause," said Yabbett. "Hope I'm not too young to have Santa Clause." She questioningly looked to Sam. "No you're not, twirp. No one's too young for Santa Clause." And Yabbett, leaning a bit closer to Sam, whispered very low, "Is Molly too old for Santa Clause?" "No twirp, no one's too young for Santa Clause and no one's too old for Santa Clause."
ref: 2001, Bonnie Gulan, Story Lady, chapter 2, in Lost Adventures of the House of the Seven Cats, page 24:
text: "Santa Clause?" Ellen asked, then rolled her eyes at her own question, "I mean, yes, sure, every kid learns about Santa Clause." "No," Mr. Stevens' smile faded and he plucked the leaf from the tree, “Every kid doesn't learn about Santa Clause, because every adult knows that Santa is a 'make believe', and overused flying, ho-ho-ho commercial."
ref: 2001, William D. Noe, Roberta J. Noe, Odds and Ends, Xlibris Corporation LLC, page 163:
text: "I think I saw Santa Clause." the child said, pushing up on her arms to eventually sit upright, her feet under her.
ref: 2012, Fernan M. Gruber Jr., Santa's Reindeer Hay, AuthorHouse, page 2:
text: The book repeatedly spells the name as 'Clause', including on the title and back cover: Do you know that Santa Clause is a real person? Do you know the true story of where Santa Clause [...] Just Call Me Nicholas, The Story of the Birth of Santa Clause will answer all of those questions and more. From Coach Kie’s Kid Collection comes this timeless lovely story about the birth of Santa Clause dating all the way back to the beginning.
ref: 2020 November 26, Coach Kie, Just Call Me Nicholas: The Story of How Santa Clause was Born:
text: Dear: Santa Clause. I wish you a merry Cristmas! Can you give me all big, small, and tiny meemeows I don’t have? [...] Dear Santa, Thank you for sending Wrinkle too! For Christmas I would like a black kitten. (PLEASE!!) Was there a Santa Clause before you?
ref: 2022 December 20, “Letters to Santa”, in The Northside Sun:
text: Dear Santa Clause, Thank you for the clothes you brought me last year. How are you and Mrs. Clause doing?
ref: 2022 December 21, “Letters to Santa Claus”, in Gazette-Journal:
ref: 2022 December 23, “Santa Clause comes early for one lucky person”, in City of Ballarat:
glosses: Alternative form of Santa Claus.