verglas
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of verglas
1800–10; < French; Old French verre-glaz literally, glass-ice, equivalent to verre glass (< Latin vitrum ) + glaz ice (< Late Latin glacia; see glacial)
Example Sentences
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Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
While there rain fell and the streets were covered with verglas.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox
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