Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cave in which ice is formed in sufficient quantity to outlast the warm season; a glacière.
- noun A hollow under the end of a glacier, whence the glacial stream flows out.
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Examples
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The film draws us into a green jungle, a blue lagoon, a blue-grey ice-cave, with fantastic images of monkeys, ghosts, and even a princess, leading viewers not so much to know what is going on, but to wonder about their own relation to the mysterious.
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The film draws us into a green jungle, a blue lagoon, a blue-grey ice-cave, with fantastic images of monkeys, ghosts, and even a princess, leading viewers not so much to know what is going on, but to wonder about their own relation to the mysterious.
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Sleepy ease is being shoved and bullied from the room by Jennifers ice-cave silence.
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Sleepy ease is being shoved and bullied from the room by Jennifers ice-cave silence.
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Sleepy ease is being shoved and bullied from the room by Jennifers ice-cave silence.
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Sleepy ease is being shoved and bullied from the room by Jennifers ice-cave silence.
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Neysa plunged through a bank of snow, breaking into the interior of an ice-cave.
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Neysa plunged through a bank of snow, breaking into the interior of an ice-cave.
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The heat plowed a deep furrow in the snow, melting and crumpling the roofs of several ice-cave dwellings.
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The next day there was a huge feast in the ice-cave mess hall at the American camp, which the men had decorated with green and red streamers and a papier-mache Christmas tree.
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