| 单词 | white frost |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite frost white frost n. [compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French blanche gelée (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman, c1350 in continental French), Middle French, French gelée blanche (1552)] = hoar-frost n. 1; cf. black frost n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > hoar frost rimeeOE frosteOE rime frostOE hoar-frostc1290 rain-frostc1300 white frostc1384 griddled frosta1400 hoar-rimec1550 hoar1567 rind1575 frost-dewa1626 cranreuchc1686 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. iii. 68 Dewis and whijt frost [L. pruina], blesse ȝe to the Lord. 1563 W. Fulke Meteors iv. f. 54 Hoare frost or whight frost, is nothing els but dewe congeled by ouermuche colde. 1641 J. Montaine tr. P. Du Moulin Anat. Masse i. ii. 19 But in the Roman Church they sing Masses for the easing of sicke people, for preserving of the vines from a white frost, for the healing of a horse, &c. 1780 W. Fleming Jrnl 14 Mar. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 634 Monday night there was a smart white frost. 1835 J. Martin Descr. Virginia 66 Our white frost is generally harmless, it being simple dew slightly congealed. 1941 A. O. Pollard Bombers over Reich x. 140 White frost..on the astrohatch. 2001 L. Ulrich Age of Homespun vii. 271 She, knowing there had been several white frosts and that the acorns were falling fast, knew where to look. < as lemmas |
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