Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Newly or recently fallen: as, new-fallen snow.
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Examples
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They can even determine if snow on the ground is new or old -- dirtier, older snow is less reflective than new-fallen snow.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The trail was heavy with new-fallen snow, and they had come far, and the runners, burdened with flint-like quarters of frozen moose, clung tenaciously to the unpacked surface and held back with a stubbornness almost human.
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The trail was heavy with new-fallen snow, and they had come far, and the runners, burdened with flint-like quarters of frozen moose, clung tenaciously to the unpacked surface and held back with a stubbornness almost human.
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Some of those pines are green, their branches holding new-fallen snow.
David Frey: Protecting West's Forests From Global Warming "Moral Issue," Gore Says David Frey 2011
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Some of those pines are green, their branches holding new-fallen snow.
David Frey: Protecting West's Forests From Global Warming "Moral Issue," Gore Says David Frey 2011
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Another painter said about him years earlier: Floriano is as lovely as new-fallen snow.
In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010
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Petitbon's subsequent firing alone prompted Tom Boswell to write that "the nation's capital felt a chill that was even colder than the city's new-fallen snow," and The Post's editorial board to cite the case of 18th century British admiral John Byng.
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Something falls from the tree and is swallowed by the soft thickness of the new-fallen snow.
When Rose Wakes Christopher Golden 2010
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Yesterday I went walking in the new-fallen snow, and I found two sets of tracks: a deer's and a man's.
Heard By a Bird in Phonecia, New York Sparrow 2009
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After spending the morning visiting Hancock Shaker Village because my wife finds the Shakers fascinating, which looked particularly picturesque among the new-fallen snow, we made our way back to Lee for our rendezvous at McDonald's.
Archive 2009-11-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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