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Snow-storm. World English Historical Dictionary

Snow-storm. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Snow-storm Also snowstorm. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. G. schneesturm, Sw. snöstorm.] A storm accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.

1 a. 1800.  Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Snow-storm, a continued snow so long as it lies on the ground. North.

2 1813.  Shelley, Q. Mab, VIII. 60. Those wastes of frozen billows that were hurled By everlasting snowstorms round the poles.

3 1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. xxiv. 170. I … climbed amid a heavy snow-storm to the Cleft station.

4 1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, 17. Bidding care Keep outside with the snow-storm.

5   fig.  1893.  F. F. Moore, I Forbid Banns (1899), 141. The next day there was a snow-storm, with invitation cards for flakes, on her table.

6 1896.  Westm. Gaz., 23 April, 7/2. He lived in a snow-storm of letters asking him for money.

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