ice flowers
- formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- Also called frost flowers. delicate tufts of frost on a surface of ice or snow.
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Origin of ice flowers
First recorded in 1905–10
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That was the story Joseph told, Joseph whose beard was white as the ice-flowers.
I.N.R.I.Peter Rosegger
The latter are more common, and have to produce apples, while the ice-flowers are uncommon, and of no possible use.
Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and FancyFrank Richard Stockton