snow-clad

[ snoh-klad ]

adjective

1. covered with snow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snow-clad¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

The Southern sun shone from a cloudless sky; a light, keen wind blowing from the distant snow-clad Canigou set the blood tingling.

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An hour later our victim arrived and scarce an inch of her but shone like a snow-clad hill with the pearls she wore.

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Beyond rose tier on tier of hills, ending on the skyline in snow-clad mountain peaks.

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Thick and leafy woods like those of old Norway, instead of these rugged cliffs and snow-clad hills.

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The mountain rose to a height of about seventeen hundred feet on our left, its steep sides being almost completely snow-clad.

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