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‖ névé|neve|
[mod.F., ad. Alpine dial. nevé:—Romanic type *nivāt-um, f. L. niv-, nix snow: cf. late L. nivātus cooled with snow.]
1. The crystalline or granular snow on the upper part of a glacier, which has not yet been compressed into ice; = firn.
1843J. D. Forbes Travels through Alps of Savoy 31 The part of a glacier covered with perpetual snow is what I understand to be meant by the term névé in the writings of the modern glacialists, although that term is vaguely defined. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlviii. (1856) 450 The change of the Arctic snows into névé or firn. 1856― Arct. Expl. I. 336, I found grains of neve larger than a walnut. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) v. 118 The steep slopes of névé above us..bulged out into huge overhanging masses.
attrib.1873J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age (1894) 545 The névé-fields under the Schneestock. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 339/1 The inland ice, beyond the glacier's ‘névé’ basin.
2. A field or bed of frozen snow.
1884Academy 23 Aug. 113/2 His descriptions certainly point to nevés and frozen snow-beds rather than to glaciers in the exact sense. 1892Lubbock Beauties Nature vii, If..we trace one of the Swiss rivers to its source we shall generally find that it begins in a snowfield or névé. |