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thaw-drop

noun

Definitions

  1. A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.

    • Down the steep bank led the narrow pathway, rendered exceeding slippery by the freezing of thaw-drops from the overhanging trees.
    • From a rhombus of saffron light in the middle distance the notes of a bamboo flute, cool and blue as the thaw-drops on the edge of a glacier, mournful and languishing crotchets, crept toward them on the gently stirring air.

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