SantaClaus

SantaClaus
San·ta Claus (sănʹtə klôz') n.
The personification of the spirit of Christmas, usually represented as a jolly fat old man with a white beard and a red suit, who brings gifts to good children on Christmas Eve.
  [Probably alteration of Dutch Sinterklaas, from Middle Dutch Sinterclaes, St. Nicholas : sint, saint (from Middle Dutch, from Old French saint. See saint) + heer, lord; see mynheer + claes(short for Niclaes, Nicholas).]

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