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snow-blindness
Also snowblindness.
[Cf. prec.]
Blindness or defective vision caused by exposure of the eyes to the glare of snow.
1748H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's Bay 137 This Invention prevents Snow-Blindness, a very grievous and painful Distemper, occasioned by the Action of the Light strongly reflected from the Snow upon the Eyes. 1836Uncle Philip's Convers. Whale Fishery 202 The glare of the snow..gave them what was called the snow blindness. 1862Peaks, Passes & Glac. II. 377 Snow-blindness, which..is not blindness at all, but merely a painful affection of the eyes. 1895Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 5/1 There were thirty cases of snowblindness and twenty-six cases of frostbite.
fig.1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith Pref. p. xiii, The snow-blindness of moral insensibility. |