silver frost
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of silver frost
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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The walls of the Hall had all been covered in sparkling silver frost, with hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossing the starry black ceiling.
From Literature
The Rihanna Two collection consists of a lipstick in warm mauve with silver frost for $19 and a lipglass in cool mauve with red frost for $18.
From Los Angeles Times
They had entered Babylon at the extreme west, a little to the north of the canal of the New Year, which, as they drove, could be seen in the distance, shining clear as silver frost in the moonlight, reflecting in its placid surface the shadowy black buildings near it on either side.
From Project Gutenberg
In the pleasant months at Twickenham he became worse in this respect than ever, and it was no unusual thing for the slow summer dawns to find this eminent judge, in an old tweed suit, and with a silver frost upon his cheeks and chin, pottering about the stables, or the garden, or the river’s brim.
From Project Gutenberg
His great body, shining like blue satin with a silver frost upon it, gave and lifted with every step.
From Project Gutenberg
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