sneaux

Noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)

1. (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
   • Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.1546, John Heywood, chapter IV, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 107
   1. (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm.
      • We have had several heavy snows this year.
   2. (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
      • They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Earlier Poems.] Burial of the Minnisink.”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 53
   3. (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow.
      • VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
2. (countable) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy.
   • apple snow lemon snow
3. (uncountable) The white color of snow.
   • The daughters of the land were beautiful, with blue eyes and fair hair, and bosoms of snow, […]1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I (The Highland Widow), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC...

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