What is "white christmas"

n. 1 A Christmas Day on which there is a ground covering of snow. 2 (context Australia food English) A sweet food item made from dried fruits and nuts mixed with copha or white chocolate or similar sweet white binding and allowed to set in a tray to make slices. '''2005''' December 12, '''' (recipe), ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio - Mid North Coast New South Wales'', (retrieved 18 Dec. 2008).

A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow at Christmas; either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day depending on local tradition. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere. Because December is at the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere summer, white Christmases there are extremely rare, except in Antarctica, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island, and in parts of the Andes in South America. The Irving Berlin song, " White Christmas", sung by Bing Crosby from the film Holiday Inn, is the highest-selling Christmas single of all time and speaks nostalgically of a traditional white Christmas.

White Christmas is a 1954 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, " White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the film Holiday Inn.

Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to yield finer-grained standard-sized 35mm prints.

"White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 100 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 150 million copies.

Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing — he told his secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"

White Christmas is a holiday music album by Al Green released in 1986. The album is a follow up to Green's 1983 release The Christmas Album.

White Christmas is the fifth album and an album of covers of famous Christmas songs by country singer Martina McBride released by RCA Records in 1998. The album was reissued in 1999 with new artwork and two new tracks. It was re-released for the second time in October 2007 with newer artwork and four new tracks added. In 2013, it was reisused for a third time as The Classic Christmas Album. The re-release added her Elvis Presley duet, " Blue Christmas", which was originally released on his posthumous album Christmas Duets, while removing the track " Jingle Bells" and revising the track listing. In the U.S. the album was certified Gold on November 9, 1999 and Platinum on November 10, 2003 by the RIAA. The album has sold 1,692,300 copies in the U.S. as of November 2014.

White Christmas may refer to:

• White Christmas (weather), a snowfall or snow-covered ground on Christmas Day
• White Christmas (food), an Australian dessert

White Christmas is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1954 film of the same name. The libretto is by David Ives and Paul Blake, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The original St. Louis production starred Lara Teeter, Karen Mason, Lauren Kennedy, and Lee Roy Reams, and the 2004 San Francisco production starred Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Meredith Patterson, and Jeffry Denman.

White Christmas is a 1996 studio album by Rosemary Clooney. This was Clooney's third Christmas album, she had previously appeared in the film, White Christmas (1954).

White Christmas is an annual night-time Christmas event which is held at Warner Bros. Movie World across selected nights in December.

White Christmas is the third studio album recorded by Deana Martin. The album was released in 2011 by Big Fish Records.

"White Christmas" is the 2014 Christmas special of the anthology television series Black Mirror starring Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin, and Rafe Spall. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and first aired on Channel 4 on 16 December 2014.

The episode starred Hamm in three mini-stories, which make up the 90-minute special.

White Christmas is an Australian dessert.

It is a mixture of raisins, glacé cherries, desiccated coconut, icing sugar, milk powder and rice bubbles, with hydrogenated coconut oil (such as the brand Copha) as the binding ingredient.

The hydrogenated oil is melted and combined with the dry ingredients. The mixture is poured into a rectangular baking tin and left to set, usually in the refrigerator. Once set it is cut into squares for eating.

It is a popular Christmas food item, especially as it can easily be made by children.

White Christmas is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Kim Sang-kyung, Baek Sung-hyun, and a cast of then-rookie actors, namely Kim Young-kwang, Lee Soo-hyuk, Kwak Jung-wook, Hong Jong-hyun, Esom, Kim Woo-bin, Sung Joon, Jung Suk-won, and Lee El. Written by Park Yeon-seon and directed by Kim Yong-soo, it aired as part of the Drama Special anthology series on KBS2 from January 30 to March 20, 2011 on Sundays at 23:15 for 8 episodes.

A series of deaths, including murder and suicide, take place over eight days in a private, elite high school deep in the mountains, with the students cut off from the outside world and in highly volatile and unstable emotional conditions. The drama deals with the question of whether evil is organic or environmental, and the potential for adolescents to be extremely empathetic as well as equally cruel.

White Christmas is the eleventh studio album (and first Christmas album) released by Australian singer Peter Andre. The album was released on 30 October 2015, just two weeks after the release of Come Fly With Me.

"White Christmas" is the ninth episode of the seventh season and the 153th episode overall of the American sitcom Modern Family. It aired on December 9, 2015 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The episode is directed by Gail Mancuso and written by Jon Pollack and ( Andy Gordon).