white frost

American  

noun

1. a heavy coating of frost.

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white frost British  

noun

1. another term for hoarfrost

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Etymology

Origin of white frost

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

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

I remember opening the freezer looking for the frozen peas and finding them locked in a solid mass of hairy white frost.

From Salon

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It was 20 degrees in Gillette Stadium, according to the newly installed thermometer that the light and breezy Los Angeles Chargers had to run past in the tunnel, onto a field clouded by the white frost exhaled from about 66,000 shouting mouths.

From Washington Post

I found him one recent morning in the vineyards amid frozen puddles and white frost, tying hooks to the wires that steady the grapevines — work my grandfather and other ancestors once did.

From New York Times

There was a coating of white frost over everything.

From Literature