white frost
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of white frost
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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The kind of game that left men hobbling off the field with “stingers” and exhaling long plumes of white frost as the snow blew sideways.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2022
I remember opening the freezer looking for the frozen peas and finding them locked in a solid mass of hairy white frost.
From Salon ● May 4, 2019
There was a coating of white frost over everything.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
The air was sharp, and there was white frost thick on the ground and on the dead leaves at the edge of the wood across the garden patch.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Beyond its confines, a hard white frost gripped Winterfell.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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