frost
/fɹɔst/ nom B1En français : givre, gel
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A disappointment; a cheat.
- A kind of light diffuser.
Pluriel frosts
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes.
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you?
Collins would have led them round his two meadows; but the ladies, not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white frost, turned back; and while Sir William accompanied him, Charlotte took her sister and friend over the house, extremely well pleased, probably, to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband’s help.
Not many days later, winter set in again with renewed frost and cold.
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