ice cave
noun
a cave containing ice that remains unmelted during all or most of the year.
Origin of ice cave
1First recorded in 1895–1900
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How to use ice cave in a sentence
Profiting by this, Benjy quietly moved away round a colossal buttress of the berg, and took refuge in an ice-cave.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneIt is an ice-cave, where the snow never melts from year's end to year's end.
Italian Alps | Douglas William FreshfieldFill individual dishes or paper cases, stand at once in the freezing kettle or ice cave; pack and freeze from three to four hours.
So a little later the four young people set off for the ice cave.
The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound | Laura Lee HopeHer face was white as the snow, her eyes were blue as the air in the ice-cave, and her hair hung down straight, like icicles.
At the Back of the North Wind | George MacDonald
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