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Hoarfrost

noun

(Written also horefrost)

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside). Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime.

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"Hoarfrost" Quotes from Famous Books

... left. A slight haze filled the air, not heavy enough to blot out the stars; but sufficient to promise hoarfrost at least. Somehow there was no reason to despair as yet ...

— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove

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... etc. We succeeded in getting afloat about 9.30 P. M. and arrived at Beaufort about midnight, after poking slowly along the crooked channel under the glorious moonlight. On getting up in the morning, which we did betimes, we found the deck slippery with hoarfrost, and are told that it is the coldest night of this winter. Somebody has told me that Beaufort was on a bluff, and that its environments were not so flat as the ...

— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various

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... of the winter that I, in the retrospect of my history, am looking forward to. It came, with its fogs, and dripping boughs, and sodden paths, and rotting leaves, and rains, and skies of weary gray; but also with its fierce red suns, shining aslant upon sheets of manna-like hoarfrost, and delicate ice-films over prisoned waters, and those white falling chaoses of perfect forms—called snow-storms—those confusions confounded ...

— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald

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Words linked to "Hoarfrost" : ice, hoar, water ice, frost