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 • 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

When they put their mouths close to the pane and blew their breath on it, the white frost melted and ran in drops down the glass.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

There was a coating of white frost over everything.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke