| 单词 | sugar snow |
| 释义 | > as lemmassugar snow sugar snow n. (a) snow (snow n.1 5a) made with sugar; (b) North American a snowfall in the maple sugar season (see quot. 1932). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > sugar confections sugar roset1363 sugar-work1572 sugar snow1611 moss1706 sugar puffa1711 silver web1769 sultana1862 chip1876 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > at specific season sugar snow1826 robin snow1853 1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly 261 If a Storme should rise..Of Suger-snowes, and Haile of Care-a-wayes. 1826 A. Anderson Diary 20 Mar. in G. Sellar Narrative (1916) viii. 124 Gordon awakened us by shouting ‘A sugar snow.’ There had been a light shower of it during the night, and the air was soft. Holes were rebored, and there was a fine run of sap. 1932 L. I. Wilder Little House in Big Woods 92 It's called sugar snow, because a snow this time of year means that men can make more sugar... The snow will hold back the leafing of the trees, and that makes a longer run of sap. 1973 M. R. Crowell Greener Pastures 149 Sugar snow is falling in those distinctive great feathery flakes that foretell the beginning of a maple sap run. < as lemmas |
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