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poudre Canad.|puːdr|
[Fr. poudre powder.]
Light, powdery snow, = powder snow. poudre day, a day on which light, fine snow falls.
1791E. P. Simcoe Diary 31 Dec. (1911) 71 There is little wind here, except with a snowstorm of fine snow. The French call it poudre or powdered snow, and to travel with that blowing in one's face is very disagreeable. 1873W. F. Butler Wild North Land xiv. 152 The sun, which on one of these ‘poudre’ days in the North seems to exert as much influence upon the war of cold and storm as some good bishop in the Middle Ages was wont to exercise over the belligerents at Cressy or Poictiers..muffled himself up in the nearest cloud and went fast asleep until the fight was over. 1901G. Parker Right of Way 83 It was a goodly scene..the flowery tracery of frost hanging like cobwebs everywhere; the poudre sparkle in the air. 1951W. O'Meara Grand Portage xxxiii. 214 It was a real ‘poudre day’. Only a few inches of dry, fine snow lay on the prairie. |