settings
Middlemarch vocabulary
1 weather related terms
help & settings
[x]
-
rime
-
notes:
{n}
tags: [meteorology]
► definition
Definition:frost formed when thick fog freezes on cold objects
► uses
Uses:
The night had been heavy and lowering, but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost, and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
---
The winter was severe. The windows every morning were covered with rime, and the light shining through them, dim as through ground-glass, sometimes did not change the whole day long.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
---
On those frosty mornings in rime-laced Quebec.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
---
It was a rimy morning, and very damp.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
help with search