Mrs. Claus

See also: Mrs Claus

English
Mrs. Claus says goodbye to her husband as he sets off on his journey in this 1919 postcard

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Mrs. Claus (plural Mrs. Clauses)

  1. (folklore) The wife of Santa Claus.
    • 2011, Kristin Luna, Tennessee Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 167:
      A relatively new gala, the Celebrate Santa Convention boasts a sea of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves, and reindeers, […]
    • 2020 December 25, Emma Green, “The Christmas Crisis”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 25 December 2020:
      In normal years, he runs a roving school for Santas and Mmes. Claus and supplies a workforce of bearded men to malls and corporate events around the country. […] He led a neighborhood tree-lighting in a blue surgical mask with a Mrs. Claus friend near his apartment in Upper Manhattan, and a few buddies volunteered for a socially distanced Christmas parade.
    • 2021, Liz Ireland, Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
      “Why do I get the feeling that ‘we’ includes me?” I said warily. “Of course it includes you. You’re Mrs. Claus.” She reconsidered. “One of the Mrs. Clauses, at any rate. I signed you up for two shifts and some cookies. Surely that’s not too much to ask?”
    • 2022, Bill Loomis, Christmas in Detroit, Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 67:
      In 1937, a Michigan school was established in Midland, and it has been training Santas and Mrs. Clauses for eighty-five years.

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