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white frost
noun
- a heavy coating of frost.
white frost
noun
- another term for hoarfrost
Word History and Origins
Origin of white frost1
Example Sentences
The kind of game that left men hobbling off the field with “stingers” and exhaling long plumes of white frost as the snow blew sideways.
From his garden, Mr. Collins would have led them round his two meadows; but the ladies, not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased, probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband’s help.
When they put their mouths close to the pane and blew their breath on it, the white frost melted and ran in drops down the glass.
He breathed it out in clouds and it froze in white frost on his mustache and beard.
The air was sharp, and there was white frost thick on the ground and on the dead leaves at the edge of the wood across the garden patch.
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