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Snowbound   /snˈoʊbˌaʊnd/   Listen
Snowbound

adjective
1.
Confined or shut in by heavy snow.





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"Snowbound" Quotes from Famous Books



... slow in the winter, news trickled slowly across snowbound distances. With spring came no bridegroom; instead word arrived of his affair with an heiress recently come to New York from England. She was rich in gold and grants of land from the Crown. Her husband would be a man of weight and influence, ...
— The Thing from the Lake • Eleanor M. Ingram
... If he wants it himproved he had best try Them proud County-Councillor coves, not come wallopping into the Westry. Wot use, too, to talk of Wienna? Don't know where that is, and don't wanter, But, 'cording to "SNOWBOUND," their style of snow-clearing beats ourn in a canter. Ratepayers' Defencers may rave, and the scribblers may scold or talk funny, But clean streets in Winter mean this,—you must plank down a dollup ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 10, 1891 • Various


Words linked to "Snowbound" :   confined


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