Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Riming.
- Covered with rime or hoar-frost.
- Frosty; cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with rime; frosty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Coated in
rime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with frost
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Examples
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He writes fortunes in clear lip gloss on a funhouse mirror as the oracles take down their tents and their oracular fountains bubble in the rimy night.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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He writes fortunes in clear lip gloss on a funhouse mirror as the oracles take down their tents and their oracular fountains bubble in the rimy night.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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He writes fortunes in clear lip gloss on a funhouse mirror as the oracles take down their tents and their oracular fountains bubble in the rimy night.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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It was the first fancy meal she had ever had, and she reveled in every morsel, from the quenelles de brochet sauce Nantua to the bombe glacée that came for dessert, rimy and sumptuous on its silver platter.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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It was the first fancy meal she had ever had, and she reveled in every morsel, from the quenelles de brochet sauce Nantua to the bombe glacée that came for dessert, rimy and sumptuous on its silver platter.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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It was the first fancy meal she had ever had, and she reveled in every morsel, from the quenelles de brochet sauce Nantua to the bombe glacée that came for dessert, rimy and sumptuous on its silver platter.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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It was a rimy evening when he set out to look for Giles.
The Woodlanders 2006
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The yard outside the house was rimy with hoarfrost, and the new sun shone upon it harshly.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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His stare was so rimy that my fingers felt as if they were encased in ice.
Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005
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IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill — on a rimy morning in departing November — Adam and
Adam Bede 2004
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