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noun Chiefly Pennsylvania.

a snowfall in late spring; the last snow of the season.

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Origin of onion snow

First recorded in 1900–05; (from crops having already been planted)

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
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Combine the beans and onion sauce in a 9x9-inch casserole dish and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
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There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
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“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!
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