Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mist of ice-needles precipitated from the vapor in the atmosphere in frosty weather.
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Examples
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The short winter day, as I perceived from the far-declined sun, was already approaching its close; a chill frost-mist was rising from the river on which
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The western sky twinkled with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
Waverley 2004
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The western sky twinkled with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
The Waverley 1877
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The western sky twinkled with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The western sky twinkled with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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The western sky twinkled with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay couched upon their arms.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
hernesheir commented on the word frost-mist
This word reminds me of the yellow diamond "fog smoke" signs one sees along roadways in the southern US.
October 18, 2011