Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The finest snow raised from the ground by the wind and carried along, as in the purga.

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Examples

  • Heavy snowstorms are frequent on the coast, but inland during the snow blizzards it is impossible to say whether the whirling snow-dust is falling from the air or being swept from the ground.

    Perspective of Antarctica in 1911 2009

  • Amid a cloud of snow-dust she shot over the yawning edge of the chasm and disappeared.

    Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

  • Round and round in the snow they went, so fast that it was impossible for Ruth to see which was dog and which was cat, their paws throwing up a cloud of snow-dust that almost hid the combatants.

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • After a day of bronco-busting in the corral, or of riding hour after hour, head on into the driven snow-dust, there was a sense of real achievement when night fell, and a consciousness of strength.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • In the soft springtime the stars were glorious in our eyes each night before we fell asleep; and in the winter we rode through blinding blizzards, when the driven snow-dust burnt our faces.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • In some places cracks and fissures filled with snow-dust traversed the body of the ice, and in other places long strings of beaded air-bubbles had become entangled in the process of freezing.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • In the soft springtime the stars were glorious in our eyes each night before we fell asleep; and in the winter we rode through blinding blizzards, when the driven snow-dust burned our faces.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • In the soft springtime the stars were glorious in our eyes each night before we fell asleep; and in the winter we rode through blinding blizzards, when the driven snow-dust burned our faces.

    IV. In Cowboy Land 1913

  • For ever close upon his heels came following forms and voices with the whirling snow-dust.

    Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • Then a great cloud of snow-dust burst in their faces, half blinding them: and, with the roar of an express train, the avalanche sped down the ravine; burying the ice-slope they had just crossed; and obliterating their footsteps as man's work is obliterated by the soundless avalanche of the years.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

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