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Webster 1913 Edition


Frostwork

Frostˊwork′

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Noun.
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

Webster 1828 Edition


Frostwork

FROST'WORK

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Noun.
Work resembling hoar-frost on shrubs.

Definition 2024


frostwork

frostwork

English

Noun

frostwork (countable and uncountable, plural frostworks)

  1. Any naturally occurring intricate pattern of ice crystals
    • Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber. Thoreau, H., Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888, p 343.