| 单词 | poudre day |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoudre day poudre day n. a day on which fine, powdery snow falls; a bitterly cold day. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > types of fallen snow > day on which powder-snow falls poudre day1873 1873 W. 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. 1892 G. Parker Pierre & his People 67 A poudre day, with its steely air and fatal frost was an ill thing in the world. 1951 W. O'Meara Grand Portage xxxiii. 214 It was a real ‘poudre day’. Only a few inches of dry, fine snow lay on the prairie. < as lemmas |
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