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ice cave

American  

noun

  1. a cave containing ice that remains unmelted during all or most of the year.


Etymology

Origin of ice cave

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Police said in their press release around 18:00 that an ice cave had collapsed.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2024

To get to the glacier from the road, his students walk across mounds of white tarps, stretched around an ice cave carved for tourists.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

As early as 1947, residents around Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier were spreading sawdust across the roof of an ice cave created for tourists to shield it from the sun’s radiation.

From Scientific American Mar. 6, 2023

One of the tours leads to an ice cave and Bernlow, who’s been here for more than a decade, said they’re watching it disappear year after year.

From Seattle Times Jan. 11, 2023

Obediently, the seventeen were still, and he groped some more and found another of his kind deep in an ice cave in the polar regions of Grismet.

From The Stutterer by Merliss, R. R.

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